More Physical Therapy

Physical therapy for different muscles.  That’s what we did yesterday.  Remember how I talked the other day about how we do adjustments to our human’s spine each morning when we bolt out the door for our walk?  We help her stretch her muscles EVERY morning – in her efforts to resist our pulling.  And in an effort to stay upright.  Well yesterday we decided to have her work on some different muscles.  The kind you use when dogs are walking 10 feet behind you instead of 10 feet in front of you.  Yes.  A morning of Polish Water Torture.  My human KNEW it was going to be great fun when Frodo didn’t get up – even when she put a leash on him.  He’s not stupid – he HEARD the rain.  He wasn’t going anywhere.  And because I have learned to do what HE does – well you can picture the somber procession up the long driveway and down the road.  It wasn’t REALLY raining ALL that hard – but you would think we were walking through fire. My human trudged forward – pulling probably close to 90 lbs of wet dogs behind her.  And to top it off, Frodo did the ultimate “refuse-a-poop”.    He was NOT happy out there – and to demonstrate his displeasure, he REFUSED to poop.  I went quickly as I figured we could go back.  But NO – I was stuck with “Mr. I-will-hold-it”.

After what seemed like 4 days, Frodo FINALLY made a deposit and we went home.  He remained rather cranky the rest of the morning.  But he got over it.  And the good news – my human had a different work out.  We really WERE just thinking of her…

Thank GOODNESS we have sun in the forecast for the rest of the week!  Have a good one!

©  Linda Wozniak