photos of Ivan getting Acupuncture this past Monday. Really helped him out a lot. He’s had to go back to his wheelchair and could hardly get around due to the arthritis in his knees and his chronic recurring bronchitis…Wednesday afternoon he was getting around without his dog wheelchair again (after canine acupuncture!)

Ivan has been walking without his dog wheelchair more and more the past month or so. The past 9 days he hasn’t used his pet wheelchair at all…he goes down into the low pasture to do his “duty” as he did in pre canine wheelchair days…quite a hike….

Ivan was in the New Market parade yesterday…his first since he got his wheelchair last November. He went along the parade route just like he always has…stopping to visit the spectators, just as happy as can be. Several places along the route people had buckets of water for our critters.

It is really neat […]

We’re still finding out new things about Ivan’s cart. I don’t know if I mentioned that he sits in his cart (braces the back support of the cart on the ground and then just puts most of his weight in the saddle….his hind legs just kind of shift out in front of his bottom. […]

Ivan is doing great with his cart. We’ve had a few issues with fitting the “saddle” properly…and when he had diarrhea, it was real fun washing the saddle a couple times a day. The people at Doggon Wheels have been very helpful in adjusting and fitting Ivan, although I am still thinking we may need […]

2 Movies of ivan in his cart

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Here are a couple of shots of Ivan with his cart the first two days after he got his cart. Notice how far ahead of us he went when we went for a walk! I’m sure he will have more interesting photos after he gets a chance to get physically adapted to […]

Today we started Ivan on shock wave therapy for both the spondylosis and the arthritis in his right knee. He is a case study for the local clinic….they have used the shock wave therapy on horses with great success…but Ivan is their first canine case.

Ivan is a German Shepherd X Lab who has been hypothyroid since 2, had elbow displasia at 9 months and ACL surgery at 2 1/2 years. He has had arthritis in his knees (stifles) since he was 3. Ivan will be 10 in January. He has been overweight most of his life (he […]