Still absolutely loving
it but wow am I exhausted by the end of the day!
Spent
more time yesterday observing behaviours. I didn't realise that by 8
weeks old you can tell the future personality of a dog...which is what we were observing
yesterday with Sandwich and Happy.
Also
spent some time learning the anatomy of the skeleton. I never was much
good at that kind of thing and dragging my memory back to GSCE Biology hasn't
been very helpful. I was trying to draw the skeleton when I got home and
went to bed counting vertebrae rather than sheep!
Today one
of the other students asked me if everything was going ok in my hotel, whether
I had enough groceries, and if I needed any wine she'd happily get me some.
How absolutely gorgeous :)
Today the
class was all about some basic massage techniques. We practised on each
other first which was hilarious, and then we were let lose on some real live
dogs!!!
We saw
Leo who is a 4 and a half year old Sheltie. Leo is used to massage
because he is an agility dog so often has pre and post event massage, but he
also had massage to help him recover from a nasty dog bite and related surgery.
He also has an extra lumbar vertebrae so can get quite stiff in his hind
quarters and he also had a thyroid problem. Poor pup. He was an
absolute star though with all of us poking and prodding him and conducting our
very basic assessment technique.
My
"client" this afternoon was Odie, a 6 year old Basset Lab mix who was
amazing! He happily let me identify his
bony landmarks and let me practise my basic massage.
2 of the class dogs today showed
their own personalities….whilst shut away in the massage room for 45 mins while
we worked on Leo, between the 2 of them they chewed up the carpet, destroyed
some boxes and one of them curled one down in the corner of the room. Reckon they were showing their displeasure at
being shut away!!!!
More hands on practise tomorrow
ready for the agility trials on Saturday when we’ll be performing pre and post
event massage for real!!!!
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