Echo's "travelling lameness", as I'll call it, is now gone and he's back to his normal self. We stopped the Aspirin last Friday as he seemed to be pretty much all better.
This week he is definitely himself - crazy puppy at times, especially after work when he's hungry! He talks a lot if you sit down with some food for yourself, as witnessed by Dad on the phone ... pretty funny.
Anyway, the technical name for what we think he had is called Panosteitis - basically lameness in the limbs that travels from limb to limb with sudden onset for no apparent reason. It occurs in large breeds during their growing stage, but Echo is pretty much done growing and past the typical age bracket for that. Without an X-Ray, it's just a guess, but the symptoms fit almost exactly. There should be no side effects from this, it just comes and goes after a while. This is a huge relief for us since we'll be away for 2 weeks, and won't have to ask Jay and Sarah (Friends who are house and dog sitting) to look after him, or worry about it. We'll still have them keep an eye out for it, but it appears to be gone now.
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