"Are you coming or what?"
Playing at La Barriere Park
It has been quite awhile since we've updated.
It's now 6 months since Romeo's surgery and, what can we say? We're really happy and so is our little boy!
He goes to see Dr. Hamilton for acupuncture and physio about once every 2 months now and Romeo always impresses her. His doggy yoga is a piece of cake to him. He can easily do hemi-standing (front and back leg of the same side lifted at the same time) and standing with front right leg lifted at the same time as back left leg and vice versa. He walks with a bit of a back leg shuffle, but I don't think anyone who doesn't know what happened could tell. He lifts his back legs to step over things. We tickle between his back toes to get him to lift his legs more and to kick them for full range of motion.
Aaaaaannnnd...Romeo can walk up steps! Though, granted, he'll only climb the 3 steps to come into the house and that's it. *lol* That's fine by us. Going down steps is no problem whatsoever.
Romeo has gotten much better at telling us when he has to go potty, but sometimes he changes what his cues are and an accident happens. Oddly enough, he still pees and poops while walking. I thought maybe that would go away after awhile. Dr. Hamilton said a lot of dogs with back injuries or sore backs will walk while pooping. You learn something new every day.
He plays tug-o'-war with Mia and pulls quite well using his back legs. The other day, Romeo looked like he was really close to doing a downward facing dog stretch, but he only lifted his butt about an inch off the ground. Still something though! Maybe one day he'll finally get that good stretch again.
Hopefully in the next couple of days we'll have a little video up so you can see for yourself how Romeo is doing. :)
Thank you all again for your help, well wishes, and asking how Romeo is doing. We really appreciate it.
