Sierra The Little Otter

I figured out how to get still shots from video using the snipping tool with Windows. As I have mentioned Sierra is camera shy. She isn't a fan of the video camera or my cell phone either. But that is ok she has a right to not like foreign objects and weird looking "eyes" staring at her from near or far.  So because of this the last thing I want to do is to stress her out so I am getting tricky with my gathering of photos of her. After all having her picture taken and feeling comfortable with that is not a prerequisite for being one of my foster dogs :)

When she is at swim therapy we always comment on how she looks like a little river otter when she is swimming and her fur is wet, so I went through and captured pictures from the video I took of her at her first swim session. We don't take the camera or video recorder anymore because the most important thing is for her to feel good about her swim sessions where she really has to work her muscles and try new things.

Sierra has done 4 session as of this blog post and she is making small steps in her ability to walk on her post surgical leg. We noticed yesterdy when we were on our walk that every once in a while she would tap her foot down on the ground. She is still air walking and her foot just hovers above the ground, so with the newly every now and then tap on the ground this is big progress for her! She also was using all four legs this morning to try and get a toy out of the toy box and she also did a rattie run this morning and used all her legs for that. So she is steadily making progress and this is wonderful!

Here are a few pics of the little otter girl. Sorry the picture quality is poor, but at least you get to see her sweet self.

Big stretch after her swim session

It's hard to tell but when she gets wet all her spots really show and she has them all over.

Little otter face....

Slurp...

Sierra working. She can swim really fast and when she does she doesn't use her bad leg so much, so J Linn gently holds her back so she has to engage the leg that needs to build strength. Once Sierra has done a lap, then J Linn massages and extends her leg while Dave strokes her face. She tolerates this routine and so she is getting lots of therapy in just a 1/2 an hour.

Love her full expressive tail.