Originally posted by Vette
And the knee... Poodles have issues with their knees.. especially Toys..

Kirby had an issue with is knee a long time ago. i had to take him to the vet and have them pop it back in place. and they showed me how to do it. and said it happens a few more times since then to bring him back in and they can do surgery to fix it.

luckily whatever he did to his knee(jump off something wrong,, or landed wrong) was all that caused it and hasnt botherd him since then.
Vette, Pumpkin, my second poodle (male toy apricot) had this. It is called a luxating patella. The vet also showed me how to slide it back in but it happened so frequently that we finally did have surgery for it and he had a pin placed in his knee cap. It is a genetic condition. Most likely Pumpkin's parent/parents had it.

Since he was only the second poodle I owned as an adult I knew nothing about finding a good breeder. He came from a breeder I found in the paper, who I later realized when I became better educated were back yard breeders, who had a male and female and decided to have a litter. Pumpkin lived to be 17 in spite of it all. Oh he also had one undescended testicle but that was taken care of when he was neutered.