Today is the one year anniversary for Lambeau with us. It is hard to believe that we have only had him a year, it has been a good one. He has tested our patients and training skills. I remember when we got him we knew nothing about him and just assumed he would be great, and we lucked out that he is a good boy. We got him a new Frisbee since Steve has been working with him and he can now catch the Frisbee in the air, he will jump and have all four legs off the ground to catch it. It is a special toy so he only gets its when we are out side with him and he gets so excited, he will sit and wait for it to be thrown with his ears up and ready to play. It is so cute to see. Tomorrow he will get his cake and new toy!
This past week we got to learn some thing about dog spines, Chad’s in particular. On Tuesday Chad was crying when trying to move, unable to move for many hours. Got him to the vet and x rays were taken to show that in his thoracic spine (right between his shoulder blades) one of the disc between a vertebrae is much smaller then the rest causing pain. Also in this lumbar spine he has some bone growth and over time it will fuse his spine together. The vet said that her dog as that and is a common disc disease in dogs that goes with out symptoms and pain, we know due to the x rays. Chad got some pain meds, and has orders to rest and no ball for two weeks. He is moving around great now. We are thinking this is a flair up and will be prepared if it comes back.
