Teo

Day 3 according to the medication chart.

Teo and I spent all day just lounging around yesterday, I was the researcher, he the mouth breather; the drugs must be treating him well.

He’s getting the hang of the hop and continues to proclaim his independence for brief moments.  I help him out to the backyard, remove the sheet sling and he awkwardly gets his business done.  Teo has always been the dog that won’t shit on the trail; he would bound off several hundred yards, find a cozy sage plant with a view and take his moment to contemplate all that is good in life.  He never used the backyard for his business, I trained him that way, so now we are establishing new drop zones much closer to the back door.  He still gets to smell the sage and the view isn’t too bad if you turn the right way.  He also spent some time just laying in the snow in the yard, I think the cold felt good and he does love lounging in the sun outside.

Our recent snow fall is helping and hurting.  The snow makes it easy to drag his bad leg, I still haven’t found a way to sling it up where it stays put, and his brace from Handicappets.com should be here tomorrow.  We’ll see if it catches on stuff or actually protects the bad paw.  I admit the irony of spending money to preserve a leg that is likely gone by the 1st of the year but as a medical professional I’m following the vet’s orders very strictly.  However, the snow also means he needs to work the good front leg that much harder to get a good wrist flick.  The reality is snow is only going to get deeper so lets figure this out.

The original title here was Mountain Town Hopping – since we live in a small ski resort town and my notorious bounder is now a hopper.  After giving it a second thought prompted by Admin, I saw how the mighty Google might mislead searchers.

Team effort!