We want our dogs to live long, active lives without ... ACL. It is located behind a dog’s stifle joint, like our knee, and connects the femur bone to the shin bone in the dog’s hind legs. A ...

The dreaded rupture of the knee’s ACL, common for athletes, would usually result in a type of surgery called a reconstruction ... that the ACL “seldom heals without intervention,” it ...

Just like Frankie’s ligament, I was also torn. I didn’t want to subject him to an unnecessary surgery, a recovery that required weeks of inactivity and cost thousands of dollars.