My vet just called. Muskwa's hips looks just fine. She says he has great conformation actually. He isn't showing any signs of arthritis, fractures or other age related changes. (He'll be 7 next month).

She says it's a soft tissue injury. I'm thinking that maybe he did get out of the yard and went to visit the neighbor's. Neighbor has horses and Muskwa does love to eat horse crap! Maybe one of the horses kicked him. We have been building a perimeter fence around our place so only about a half acre will remain unfenced. It's supposed to keep the wolves out this winter, but the bonus will be keeping Muskwa in. (among other things, like being able to let other dogs loose more and Heyoka won't have to be chained at all) Right now the fence is up, but not fully finished and clearly not Muskwa proofed yet!

I can pick him up in two hours. He's going to be on Rimydal(sp) and Robaxin for a week. I'm a little concerned about the Rimydal, but my vet says she doesn't think Metacam is strong enough. I asked her about negative side effects and she says she hasn't seen any in huskies who were on it for a short time.

Muskwa is also not allowed to run for two weeks. That should be fun to enforce!