As you know, last week I laid out my plan to help get Sampson recover from his ACL surgery. It involves limiting his walks both in terms of distance and speed, adding Glucosamine to his diet, and getting him some acupuncture treatments. Currently Sampson goes to the Physical Therapist once a week, where he gets cold laser therapy. Last week the therapist asked how he was doing and I told her I thought he was doing better.
I gage this in a couple of ways.
1) He’s climbing on the couch at least once or twice a day.
I love my couch, I think it’s grand, if I could I’d hold it’s hand.
2) He seems to be walking better, in fact I have to slow him down quite frequently, as he’s pulling ahead of me on our walks.
3) He’s not licking his paws as much as he was.
When he saw my vet on June 23rd, she took a look at his paws and said, “He’s hurting.” Check out the photos.
This photo was taken June 26th. While it’s hard to see I’ve pointed out the areas with the lick Granulomas.
This photo was taken July 10th. Exactly two weeks later.
As you can see, he’s not licking at his paws as much and the Granulomas are healing up.
4) He wants to run and jump.
5) Did I mention he wants to jump? Yeah, Saturday I drove up to the park, pulled out the ramp and opened the hatch. As I’m opening the door I’m saying, “Wait.” Except he didn’t. He jumped out.
JUMPED. Out of the freaking car.
Asshole.
These dogs will be the death of me. If they don’t physically kill me by tripping me, or knocking me down, they’ll give me a heart attack with their antics.
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