As you can see from the posts, Dandy has had amazing results from TTouch and it has been a wonderful journey for both of us! The plan is to continue the work with his practitioner, focusing on confidence and helping him to improve his awareness of being in his body. At home we will continue to wrap him and do other movement work. I have no doubt Dandy will continue to excel, becoming more amazing with each passing day!
Dandy's sit as of 10/19 - you can see the improvement in a very short time
Dandy's sit on 8/3
So relaxed and he LOVES body work!
"I can feel my legs and body!" Dandy often chooses to put his body in the pose for us and Lori - amazing the progress he's made and the trust he has built with all us.
More work on bending his legs
The great thing about our sessions -- we can mimic this movement work at home! We have tools like this at home so, we will no doubt be doing this outside of session. You can now see the muscle definition in his back legs something he didn't have prior to TTouch. It just warms my heart to see how engage and eager Dandy has become! Because of all this work, Dandy is much more trusting of people and he frequently tries to be "brave" when he meets and visits with people.
Changing things up -- this is harder work for him in terms of using his back legs especially his back right leg, which he still struggles with bending. We are looking for him to step up and down with no hoping on or off. I love the first 2 seconds of this video as he paws Lori's hand. The great thing... no one is in a hurry and no one has unreasonable expectations of Dandy's progress. We will just keep working with him and mixing it up. You can see in yesterday's post and todays post - a lot of the movement work is about slowing down. This helps the dog to "feel" his/her body which has really helped Dandy. This boy is a TTouch rock star and we are so proud of him!
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