Bianco's Update from Home - July 5 till 7

1st Picture: Bianco trying to crawl

2nd Picture: Tequila and Bianco sleeping on my bed

1st Video: Bianco pushing himself up for awhile when he sees food

2nd Video: Using of snack to motivate Bianco to walk in water

3rd Video: Bianco entertaining himself

We went to see the surgeon last Saturday and when he checked on Bianco he said that Bianco has gain some strength.. but its still not enough to support his back or even stand on his own. However, he can stiffen his legs straight to support his back for a while.. but still very wobbly.

He has also stronger resistance on his right hind compared to the last few days and his pullback when tickled is more apparent. Right now, we are using the same method to just trigger him to pull back his left hind leg.

The only thing that can excite him is food. Only the use of food will encourage him to move himself. It is the only thing that can keep him alert. Otherwise when we come back from work, he'll be excited only for awhile... which ends up peeing on himself due to him being too excited to see us.

We have also made an appt with the accupunturist tis coming Saturday to speak to him on Bianco's condition and to see what is his suggestion. Most likely is that we'll put him through accupuncture treatment.

While we were at the hospital, there were some intersting animals that we met:

1) A jack russell that just went into full paralysis for no reason. After 3 mths of accupuncture, the JR can walk and even run and jump up and down chairs in the hospital

2) An owner actually brought her rabbits in for accupunture as it has also lost the use of its limbs

3) A golden retreiver who was there to do her hydrotherapy and her owner is going into the pool with her to motivate her (I will do that with Bianco this saturday as we got the idea from her. Dr Tan said that Bianco is a lazy swimmer... so I guess that we have to find alternatives to motivate him)

4) A JR was brought in as his hind legs suddenly went limb during a jog with its owner in the morning. The JR is unable to move and just laid on the flr.....

** Apparently what we found out was that conditions like these are very common in JRs.... so to all those owners with JRs... please take note yea....