5 year old heart

Buddy went to the vet today because of some leg problems. I thought his hips had finally given out. Travis was sure it was our new furniture. We were both wrong! He has a tear in his knee ligament. He tore is left one back in 05 and we had surgery to correct it. Now he has a tear in 08 in his right one. To off set surgery costs we decided to do pain pills and anti-inflammatory meds for the time being....
However, before we could do that Dr. Weech decided perhaps we should take an x-ray of his back to rule out a blown disk.
We were called back to look at the x-rays. He has some inflammation around his 2nd vertebrate and some arthritis there as well. There appears to be some calcium build up around his knee too, which could indicate the rip. No blown disk though.
We were however, able to see his heart. Dr. Weech said it looked like a 5 year old heart, probably because he's so active!

Travis keeps saying the dog may be falling apart, but there is nothing wrong with his heart! He is so right!
We actually laughed when the vet said that. Dr. Weech then proceeded to tell us that he could live another 4-6 years!

I think we need to rename Buddy the energizer buddy....he just keeps going, and going, and going!