Before I give the official update – it took her 3 1/2 months, but . . . SHE’S WALKING AND STANDING LIKE A TRUE TRIPOD!!!  Her endurance is not that great, but she’s using muscles she hasn’t in 3 1/2 months.

I have been having a hard time getting her to eat since around 10/7/2010. I can get her to take a few bites of wet food here and there, but it’s not a full bowl of food. She sniffs it and just turns her nose up. She’s still taking her pills (wrapped in cream cheese) and eating her peanut butter kong and taking other treats and her ‘beef tablet’ flavored pills.   10/14/2010 her box of Honest Kitchen came in and she’s eating that somewhat ok.

Oct 9 she went for chiropractic care again.  The vet shaved a SMALL spot for me to put Capsaicin-P on her hip because he said that’s the only thing that’s really bothering her.  She’s also been put on ‘routine’ chiro maintenance as her back isn’t really getting out of whack too much.

Oct 12 was the first day she stood like a true Tripod, everything with her walking was like it happened overnight.  I went to bring her in and put her “walmart” sling under her, hoisted her up and she started standing.  So I kept the sling under her, but dropped it so she was bearing all her weight.  She went about 10 feet on her own like that.  As of today (10/16) she is standing up proper and hopping more proper.  She’s still getting the hang of it and you can see her legs shaking under her, but she’s getting it and needs to build up her muscles.

Inside the house she seems really tired and just not 100% herself.  I’m not sure if it’s her allergies, just soreness from using muscles she hasn’t used in a long time, the cancer, or a combination.  She lays in her crate, Loki’s crate or the sunporch mostly.  Outside she acts pretty normal.