There’s many natural alternatives for example deer sinew, deer velvet, glucosamine sulphate and green mussel extract. My dog recovered from limping just 2 weeks after using these supplements. They works because they actually help to repair the painful joints while the vet medicine only relieve the symptoms. I use Hubrihound on my own pooch, she’s still very puppy like while she’s 14, its not a joke! Trust me, try it and see, its much cheaper and more helpful, it does takes a little while yes, just gradually decrease the vet medicine dose while trying out the supplements then stop completely after your dog shows much improvement. Continue the supplement to keep your doggy that way. Make sure your dog is not allergic to any of the supplement ingredients. If in doubt ask your vet, your vet will know the best!
Also a gentle exercise will ease the suffering.
Make sure your dog is lean, to speed up the recovery and put less stress in already painful joints.
Good luck!

PS I’m a vet-to-be although its still another 10 years. I’m 15 by the way.

whatever you do please do not give her rimadyl. It kills.
maybe a bit of gluosamine and chrondroitin from costco?

In addition to supplements, mentioned above, change your house and furniture to suit her.

Examples:
Stairs or a ramp up to your bed and the couch.
Raise food bowls to shoulder height, having to lower their heads to eat is sometimes painful.
Get self heating beds/mats. Heat is great for achy bones and muscles.
Use plywood to make stairs into and out of your house shorter. It’s jarring to go up and down tall stairs for potty breaks. ( I hope you understand what I mean, I’m having a hard time explaining. You want the step to be shorter so they don’t have to lift up, or step down from as high as a “standard” step.)
has lots of all natural, herbal supplements.

Good luck to you.

my rott has a torn acl muscle and the vet perscibed joint pills 1500 - 2000 mg gullasome close spelling .human pills i buy at costco .there is a pill 1500 mg one pill one a day . some are twice a day too much work for that way. mulan takes that and one bayer everyday she still limps sometimes but not all the time it helps .surgery 50/50 not good odds for help. hope this helps

I have a 9 yr old pug/boxer cross that also has arthritis problems. We give him glucosamine with chondroitin and aspirin once a day and it helps immensely. After the first couple doses he was right back to playing and was much happier. He has always had wet food mixed with his dry food so it was easy to hide it. We just got the glucosamine gel-caps that we could pull apart and mixed the powder from one pill as well as half an aspirin dissolved in water with his wet food.