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Dog fitness Question number four, my dog is old. He just, you know, he can’t do anything anymore. He’s not interested in life. He’s got pain, arthritis, hips. It’s really hard to get him on the grooming table. Or you have a young dog. Koa was malnourished when she was a pup, so she has a weak wrist.

You may have a dog that lost a limb before you has a limb deformity who you know. It’s hard to say what life they had before they came to us, and now we’re just trying to do the best to help them, whether it’s old age or they have some issue when they came to you. If you go to my blog, canine fitness works dot com,

look for a number one exercise every dog should do. There’s a couple exercises there. Those exercises will help strengthen up their quads, glutes, hams, put input into their feet, strengthen up their core. All those will help increase body awareness and body confidence. And what you may see is your older dog may start to do things they never used to do,

or things they never used to do since they were a puppy, because they now have the body confidence that their back legs are going hold them, that their core is going engage, or that pup that doesn’t really seem to want to play because they’re missing a limb or they have a limb deformity or they have weak wrist. All of a sudden they’re a little stronger.

And that gives them the confidence to do what we ask them to do and to engage in the environment. So I like to say, it doesn’t matter the age, it doesn’t matter the injury or the deformity. We can strengthen that up and build their confidence and awareness in the process. And it can be fun doing it while building a bond with you.

Again, this could be a case by case basis. So those exercises on my blog, the number one exercise every dog should do, is a baseline. And feel free to reach out to me or your local rehabber or veterinarian for more guidance and let me know how it’s going. I’d love to know and hear what you guys are doing and how your pup is improving.