Hi everyone!  Yesterday was Jake's 3 month ampuversary.  He is  doing awesome and thought it was high time I posted some videos.  Thanks everyone for your support.  Jake took right to his carriage much to the dismay of my husband and neighbors.  He jumps in and out at will when he's tired or wants to be where the action is.  I take it in the neighborhood or in the truck or my SUV (the wheels come off easy) to go further.  I'm so happy I got it.  I felt that I wanted to be able to go a distance without worrying that Jake was over doing it.  I ended up buying the DoggyRide Novel Dog Jogger-Stroller.

I went to a rehab visit with Jake a month ago.  I was given some exercises to do with Jake and some message techniques.  I am trying to be faithful with them but have slipped a bit.  I must be better with this.  I cancelled the second visit because I had company and need to reschedule it.  I must admit I'm not that crazy about spending money on acupuncture or the digatherm thermal imaging.  Perhaps I need to educate myself more.  I'm not convinced he needs all this.  But, he's only three and I realize that I must be proactive so he ages as gracefully as he can.  

Jake is the same dog he has always been.  He walks a shorter distance then jumps in the carriage when he gets tired.  The only difference is I can't take him for long walks into the woods off road because I can't take the carriage.  I tried it once and it was agony.  So this is a small price to pay to have Jake by my side keeping my life interesting and fun!

The videos will be in the next post.

here is the other.

Hi everyone.  September 21 was Jake’s 5 month ampuversary.  Here is a video of him doing his favorite thing, digging a hole 🙂

He is doing great and is an absolute joy ( most of the time 😉).  When he runs you’d never know he was missing a leg. He loves his walks and loves his carriage.  I was babying him and he started to add a couple of pounds so I’ve backed off and am letting him run more, etc.  I hope I don’t regret it down the road.  I realize I need him to just live and enjoy life.  I’ve got the carriage figured out and know my limitations with it ( after some tough off trail walks).  We have lots of class 6 roads so enough walks to keep things spiced up.  Often on the walks Jake wants to dig after a chippy, so I get caught up on my reading in the woods while Jake digs.  I figure, whatever makes him happy.

As a refresher, Jake had a soft tissue sarcoma in the elbow.  The oncologist said it hadn’t spread to the lungs and if we excised the limb relatively soon we could consider the cancer gone (soft tissue sarcoma doesn’t tend to spread quickly).  The surgeon didn’t think follow up X-rays necessary.  So I guess that’s that.  If anyone feels otherwise feel free to let me know.

As I see it, my biggest challenge is to help Jake age well.

 I’ll try to start a blog ( with Jerry and Admin’s help🙏).  I’m not great with technology.  Sad to admit I’m not even sure how to post a picture of Jake, only videos 😬

Thanks everyone for being here.  

     A long overdue post on Jake.  Stacy encouraged me to post.  Jake and Griffin have the same month ampuversary.  Stacy said she’d love to hear how Jake is.  I’ll commit to more updates to give others strength also.

     On the 21st it will be Jake’s 10 month ampuversary.  He continues to make me smile everyday.  This is him at the barn where his barn buddies live.  He loves it there!  His carriage is a godsend!  He jumps in it when he’s tired.

     I got him some food puzzles that he guards and protects but won’t play and eat the food.  He even growls at his brother.  Odd.  They are Nina ottoson outward hound level 1&2.  Anyone else have this issue?

     I thank everyone for your love and support!