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Rex Continued............ Having
spent many years trying to sort maladjusted, nervous, badly bred GSD’s
it was such a joy to have a super dog that was just so please to find
people who liked his company. But the pleasure of having the company of
such a dog was short lived because within a few weeks I noticed he was
dragging his back feet. The vet said it was a degeneration of the spinal
cords and that there was nothing that could be done. I could not believe
that just when this dogs life had become worth living, I was going to
have to put an end to it. We
struggled on for the next few months, first with bandages on his feet,
then special boots, then a towel under his belly with us supporting him
until we could get him onto grass that would be kinder to his feet. We
noticed in the house that unless we lifted him, although he could still
stand and walk he preferred to pull himself along by his front legs. And
all this time he was still delighted with his life and interested in all
that was going on. So I went around the neighbourhood scrounging old
duvets, cut them in half and sewed the together to make a duvet path
from the back door to the lawn so he could get in and out with out
hurting himself. Someone
then told me about the K9 cart, and I decided that in his case he
deserved a bit more pleasure in his life so I wrote to the USA for
details. We decided to go ahead and order it, we had to measure Rex and
weight him and the cart was made to measure. I was very worried that he
would not take to it and we would have wasted what was a considerable
amount of money. Despite
my fears he took to it with joy and on his first outing had me running
up the road behind him yelling heel. When we got to the river, which is
where I walked the dogs, he was chasing squirrels, running up to people
and doing all the things a normal dog would do. He had 3 more years
living as far as he was concerned a normal active life. Whether I would
do the same again I can’t say, different dogs, different
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