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Just messing about with the quad the other day.

 

[trenchfoot 4,243]

Wish our fields were that flat! But that's a nicely balanced dog you have there

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Always liked your bitch Jai....

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That's the whippet col!

 

Trench - He does ok for me, if you watch closely you can see from his gait where he damaged a back leg badly, and also a weakness in a front shoulder from another injury. He's still plenty fast enough and can run all day though, regularly does 20 + k on the quad no sweat.

 

And that's one of our few flat fields! It's all hills here boyo!

[trenchfoot 4,243]

Jai, just watched it again and can see that back leg , is there nowt that you can do about it? But what struck me was the overall balance between head, front quarters, back and rear quarters. A lot of whippets I've seen have had excessive head rock and weak fore quarters.

 

One of mine has a damaged to it back end and regular massage and stretching keeps it at bay. That way it stops that imbalance working back up through his structure

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It was the result of that mate, he's very lucky to have four legs, so I can live with what he's got, and to be honest he has just adjusted a bit. I give him a good rub down, and massage with some liniment, and he's due in with the bone man again soon, to pull him about. He's never been a fast whippet anyway, he's just real powerful, but as he's a whippet, even lacking a bit of his speed. . . . he's still quicker than anything he needs to catch. He's doing about 30mph at the end of the video, and he can go a bit more if he needs to

 

Cheers for the comments, he's a handy enough dog

[trenchfoot 4,243]

Fair play Jai, that's a fair old knock he took! Personally I'd still be tempted to look at some remedial massage programme to keep things at bay. A bone man may help, depends on their approach to treatment

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Yer, that's it, it's just a case of trying to slow down the arthritis!