How to strenghten a dog's legs?

Aspirin can help ease the dog's pain.
Ask a vet for the recommended dosage

Would you try and strengthen your grandma’s 98 year old legs?

Swimming. Less stress on joints helps maintain muscle mass. Don’t give aspirin. Get a prescription nsaid assuming your pup has good liver and kidney function.

Hydrotherapy worked for our 12 year old dog with arthritis.

Squats

Previcox

Try C-Complex if you can find it.

Talk to your vet to see if there are underlying issues like arthritis. My dog was on anti inflammatories and cosequin chews the last few years.

Regarding hydrotherapy, I haven’t tried this but I’ve seen online where you can take a bathtub full of water, a dog life vest with a handle strap, and a broom stick that goes through that strap and on top of the tub and basically suspend your dog in water over the tub. I know my dog’s natural instinct to dog paddle always kicked in when she was in water, even when I was holding her.

I trick my senior dog into running my randomly getting up and yelling squirrel. She's 13 and fat but she'll get up and run to see a squirrel.

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I just notice them getting a little weaker.

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I would try something for joints but seeing a vet wouldn’t hurt

There’s a vet in Gonzales that does the laser treatment for arthritis, should be able to find via google, a coworker used them for a cat & said difference was remarkable