Hydrotherapy

Mollie and Dylan had a fantastic time at hydro again on Wednesday evening. I took my camera but as you can probably see I wasn’t a very good photographer! Bit too worried about getting it wet, and I couldn’t find the right settings.

Mollie spent about 15 minutes swimming on the rope against the jets, 7 minutes at the start and then another 7 later in the session. Dylan did about 12 minutes (7 & 5) as he hasn’t quite got Mollie’s swimming stamina yet! He’s a lot more subtle about signing when he’s tired too, we have to watch him. Mollie just starts lolling her tongue about and flailing, but Dylan just huffs very quietly. Of course, Mollie spends her whole time barking when Dylan’s swimming without her so you can’t hear him huffing. Although having said that, Dylan spends the whole time screaming when Mollie’s swimming without him. He really went into mad collie mode, Sarah said he just looked like Flloyd used to when he swam (um, for those of you who know Sarah or Flloyd!).

They spent the rest of the time just playing with their toys and diving in like nutters, which is when I took the photos. You can see how awesome the pool is, it’s circular and the jets are angled to create a current. Because it’s circular, you can also work on building different sides of your dog depending on their injuries etc. It’s also deep as it was originally built for rehabilitating injured Greyhounds (hence the poster in the background).