This little cutie is Shadow and you are going to be seeing a lot of him in the next few months. He is a six month old puppy that currently lives at Ontario SPCA Muskoka Animal Centre. He has had one surgery and is due to have more to correct his back leg deformities.
You can help Shadow by contributing towards the cost of his rehabilitation. You can make donations direct to the Muskoka SPCA, in person at Gus & Gigiās in Huntsville, at Tuffyās Natural Pet Store in Bracebridge and at Muskoka MVMT physiotherapy clinic in Huntsville. Or you can etransfer me [email protected]
Even big dogs enjoy doing their exercises!!!! ā¦ā¦. The cookies help!
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This lovely senior boy had a āmini strokeā or TIA in the fall which left him off balance and very weak. As you can see he has made an amazing recovery thanks to his owners dedication with his home exercise programme.
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More shoulder stuff! Tullys turn to demonstrate today. Working on core and side flexor strength, and stability and eccentric control of the standing leg.
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My Rhu had a freak injury a couple of months ago and we are now working on rehabbing him to get back to agility, specifically working on shoulder stability.
Even though weāre focusing on shoulder function and stability, any exercise works other parts of the body too. Take a look at the video and let me know what else you think is being worked in the two exercises.
I taught Tully this trick when he was a puppy for one of his Trick Dog titles. Decided to try it the other night to see if he still remembersā¦.. I think he did pretty good! This is a great one for foot position awareness, and we are working on standing still once up on the pods.
My young dog thinks that everything should be done at full speed, so we are beginning to work on reminding him about collection and control! I set up this grid with the jumps getting closer together. It took about seven reps before he worked out how to keep all the bars up! This is going to be an ongoing project!!
I am collaborating with WIMBA to provide custom braces!! If you know me, you know that I am not the best with technology, and Wimba use the latest technology to digitally scan the dogs leg to ensure the best brace fit. So, I have been practicing with a friends dog! The very perfect Georgia was so patient while I worked out the kinks in the scanning process ā¦ā¦. Iām almost ready to start scanning clients!!
Proprioception exercises donāt need a lot of fancy equipment, although it is fun to have! Here we are working on limb awareness, you can see at the beginning of the exercise he is looking down to check where the pole is, and by the end he is able to back all four feet over it without looking.
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This dog has given me a run for my money! He injured his left leg a while ago and was pretty determined that he could manage on three legs for the rest of his life! Weāve tried all kinds of rehab techniques and exercises, and finally at his last session he began to use the leg šššš
I was teaching this exercise to a client the other day and realised I havenāt taught either of my younger dogs how to do it. So, here you go ā¦.. a video right from the beginning to the almost finished exercise, it still needs some polishing! Tully found it much easier to stand on the right and lift the left legs than he did the other way around.
This handsome young man suffered a head injury a few months ago but is making an amazing recovery. He gets bored quickly so we have to keep mixing up his exercises to challenge his brain and keep him engaged.
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Assessment and rehabilitation of dogs in Muskoka after illness or injury, weight loss and conditioning programmes and injury prevention programmes.
