After your dog is injured, when should you expect your dog to start walking?  How far and how fast should he walk? How about swimming and dog hydrotherapy? What’s the best way to get your dog’s muscles back in shape and to get his stamina back?  If your dog is a runner, when and how [...]

If you’re a dog or you know somebody who has a dog, and if you (if you’re a dog) or the dog you know has his leg in a splint or a cast, this blog post is for you!
Well, here is what my parents don’t want me to do. Here is what my doctors don’t [...]

Today, the day before Independence Day, marked 12 weeks and two days since I was hit by the automobile.
Today also marked the first day of my new personal sense of freedom.

The day started like all the other days when I had a visit to the animal hospital, except for three things:  On this day my [...]

Here is the topic that many of you have been asking about. 
As the weeks go by, my new coat is growing in and the bald spots where I was shaved are disappearing.  I never pay any attention to these areas of baldness. They don’t mean anything to me.   I’m not one to pay attention [...]

I don’t know what my veterinary doctors are going to think about this but here goes:
There I was – happy as could be – without the splint for the first time in months.
It was the afternoon and I was with my mom.  The telephone rang and my mom was talking and talking to my dad. [...]

I walked into the animal hospital today with a bandaged foot and ankle, and a splint – and I walked out of the animal hospital with just a bandaged foot and ankle!  I feel so happy I could run a mile.
Except that I’m not allowed to walk more than a block in each direction.
In fact, [...]

How do dogs communicate with each other?  Some dogs make friends quickly and others not so quickly.
Today we took another trip to the animal hospital for another bandage change.
I met more and more dogs and one of them even let me lick him!  This dog I liked a lot. Her name is Fay. When Fay’s [...]

A dog who gets hit by a car isn’t going to tell you if he is in pain.  And if he is in pain, he certainly is not going to tell you where it hurts.
At the fence that morning after I was hit by the car, my mom saw blood and open wounds but she [...]