Glad his social engagements are looking up xxx Is the lady hoping that holding onto his ears will stop him chewing up her stick cos she's bang out of luck if she is
Hahaha - they were cool about the sticks. I left a rope tug/chew thing and a ball on a rope in the toy bucket as payment....
Oh yes - forgot. When Charlie got weighed at Cambridge he was 30kg. Eeeek! I couldn't believe it, and had them weigh him again....29.5kg, but he had his tail on the floor. The vet saw him at Greyfriars, checked him over, and said he was fine and nice and slim. He still looks at his fighting weight to me - I can see the ends of his ribs when he is stood straight (that's the test). So I reckon the scales were wrong. No way he is 2kg over weight. OH has put him back on a diet anyway, just in case. Poor boy!
Charlie says thank you....please lobby to save him from further starvation! Seriously though, he can't put on weight, it would be dreadful for him. So I'll have to pop him down to the regular vet on his walk this morning and pop him on the scales he normally gets weighed on.
We did a 50 minute walk this morning (it was 30 minute walking, 20 minutes sniffing really). We walked close to a spaniel with a ball in the duck pond, and 2 Labradors with tennis ball chuckers, and a beagle that wanted to play - I had a bit of honking type whining at the beagle, but he wasn't too bad. Plus an off lead terrier stuffed his nose up Charlie's bum, and Charlie just had a wee on its head and moved on. So that's all made me feel a bit better...
Charlie doesn't like to play with Terriers - if it had been a young Labrador bitch giving off "I wanna play with you!" signals, it would have been a very different story....
Just catching up now I'm around some consistent wifi again....so glad his assessment went well ....I really hope the elbow issue will resolve itself now he will be excersising 'more' and hopefully not compensating for the cruciate injury...Glad he didn't seem too nuts in his walk...you see he knows when he's given his Muma big of a fright and so then he's a good boy to show you all is not lost.... Xxx
Blue bone hydro day....he picked the bone himself from the toy basket. He loves getting to pick his toy. He is walking in longer bursts now and is on his way back to iron man status.... blue bone hydro by Julie T, on Flickr
I love imagining him picking his toy from the basket.... "Hmmm, what shall I have today?", like someone in a supermarket, rummaging through the fruit and veg
Well, more smash and grab shoplifter than Waitrose shopper, but yeah..... He nips round everyone to make sure he gets to the basket to choose himself (rather than have someone do it for him) and has a good sort through to find the one he wants.
Well, Charlie had his physio assessment last night - it went very well. He is now able to start returning to normal, over a period of about 6 weeks. So he is allow 5 minutes a day off lead, building up by 5 minutes a week, until 6 weeks when he'll be having 30 minutes off lead and then the restrictions will be over apart from not really playing with any dogs in a crazy way - no mad rough stuff for another month after that. This is very good news, as it's a full 5 weeks earlier than for his other leg, which is good going. Makes me a bit wistful as my gundog training holiday (that I cancelled, losing my money on my holiday cottage and so on) would have been next week. Not that he is able to go of course, but seems so close.... Anyway. We are going on holiday still, just not a gundog holiday. I took him up to the duck pond which is close to a quiet park. This particular park doesn't have a lot of open spaces, so not a lot of football games etc. At the end of the walk, I found an almost empty bit of space and wandered past the young mum with kids (Charlie on lead) and the kids said hello to Charlie - this was my insurance against Charlie later bounding up, they would know he was friendly. He didn't approach them, it was just-in-case though. Let Charlie off lead and he just took off in a zoomie. Deaf. Luckily, he ran in a big circle around me and didn't go far. Eventually, I got his attention and was able to reward him for his attention on me. Then he legged it to say "hi" to a young beagle who arrived in my previously nearly empty clearing. Drat. I'll have to put him on a long line for a bit. As per.... Put Charlie back on lead and we had to sit down in the shade while he recovered enough composure to remember how to walk on his lead. But he thought it a very good walk indeed.
That is absolutely brilliant news. Shame about the holiday but there's always next year to plan for. It wouldn't be much fun if Charlie couldn't really be off lead - definitely a case of so near and yet so far! I'm not surprised Charlie did a zoomie , it was that first taste of freedom that did it , the main thing is he only ran around you and eventually calmed down . I used a long lead with Juno a lot as I could drop it and allow her to roam that much more but prevent her from forgetting her manners after being on restricted. I'm sure Charlie really enjoyed his walk, that zoomie in particular
Very good news that Charlie's recovery is ahead of schedule and it must be so lovely for him and you to be able to have some off lead zoomies.
