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| Look how blond his face is getting! |
Isn't that a wonderful picture? Scruffy puppy enjoying the great outdoors - on four legs!
Duncan's vet appointment went very well yesterday, although I understand he gave Auntie Genna a hard time over the x-ray part of it. His leg has healed very well - the vet said you can hardly tell it was broken; she called it "the power of puppies" - but he has lost a great deal of muscle. Not surprising, when he's spent almost 1/3 of his life not using his leg! So he's been prescribed short walks 4 times a day, plus some other exercises, which should have him back to full strength in a few weeks. He was also warned not to overdo it, but apparently he wasn't listening to that part!
As a bonus, he got the last of his vaccinations at the same time, so we can do his "physio walks" outdoors. Duncan finds this tremendously exciting. Outdoors is full of wonderful things, like sticks. And dead leaves. One of them went blowing past us, so we stopped to watch:
Nothing like a brisk trot to build muscle, right?
Lucky boy! Someone's going to get accustomed to 4 walks a day.
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