Kody Can Swim

Today was only Kody's second hydrotherapy session and he was such a good boy. He was much better at getting showered this week when he got there and when he got out. He was very happy to play ball on the ramp and had a good few games of bobbing for the ball. We then got him actually swimming. His first couple of goes were a bit splashy but then it seemed to click in his head as to what he was supposed to do and by the end we had him jumping off the ramp and swimming around the edge of the pool nice and calmly and then back onto the ramp. (We however were not so calm, shouting and cheering at him for being a 'good boy') I cant believe the difference in him for only his second session. It took Heidi about 4 sessions to be that confident in the pool.

The other 3 all had a swim today too. Brian was totally mental, anybody would think he had never been swimming before! He just loves to go to hydro, I think it's his favourite activity. Megan was in second after Brian, she was much calmer, she tries really hard but she does have a much more 'relaxed' swim than the others do!

Heidi had another brilliant session, I got some photos of her swimming today she really does enjoy it. She was even barking for Anne to throw the ball for her into the pool! I only managed to get photos of Kody sitting on the ramp but i'm hoping after a few more sessions he will be less reliant on me being so close and ill be able to get some photos and a video clip of him swimming. (You can see he certainly isn't unhappy sitting in the pool!)

The dogs have got to wait 3 weeks for their next session now as either I couldn't take them or Anne couldn't fit them in but hopefully Kody wont have forgotten how to swim by then.