Acupuncture

Location: Mosquito Creek Veterinary Hospital in North Vancouver, BC
Weight: 61.2 lbs
Note to self: weight down again, need to do more hunting!!!

All that fence banging, or, some of you might call it fence "bashing" has made my arthritic elbow a little stiff and "crunchy". We call it "crunchy" if mom can feel the friction (kinda like bone to bone) in the elbow joint while doing stretching and range of motion exercise with me. When this happens, I get to go see my Auntie Janice for acupuncture. I love my Auntie Janice so much that I'm always trying to come up with legitimate reasons (such as splitting my tooth and scaring mom half to death!!) so that I can go see her.

When I found out that I was going to see Auntie Janice, I couldn't be happier! As usual, I marched into MY clinic, announced my presence to everyone, made my rounds around the clinic, nodded my head to Kayla (Auntie Janice's girl), and gave my favorite vet tech - Jennifer a nice growly head rub between the legs (my head, Jen's legs). After I was satisfied with the way things were running in MY clinic, I walked into my acupuncture room ready for my treatment.

Auntie Janice introduced me to Tanya, the new vet assistant of MY clinic. Tanya seemed really nice, and I look forward to getting to know her. Auntie Janice asked mom if it would be ok for Tanya to stay for my acupuncture session, and after consulting with me, mom said it was ok.

This was me, all happy and "awake" before the needles went in!!



It was Tanya's first time meeting me, so she didn't know that I usually get really sleepy as soon as the first needle goes in. So Tanya kept a firm grip on my harness throughout thinking that I would be struggling. Much to her surprise, I was calmer than a .............turtle???

First few needles went in, can you see my eyes getting dopy??

and dopier......

Trying very hard to remain standing.............but my legs were feeling quite "noodle-ly"....

Finally, I succumbed to my noodle-ly legs and laid down.....

Then my head started to feel heavy.........................

Soon afterwards, I was in dream land........

Auntie Janice and mom always laugh at me when they see me start to get drowsy, because I try to fight it, but can never keep my eyes open long enough LOL! It really is amazing how well acupuncture works on me. It was definitely an eye opener for Tanya the new vet assistant in training!!

You can read more about me, my vet, the clinic, and how acupuncture works on my previous post:

• MY clinic, MY vet, MY Janice!!!

After I was all "rejuvenated", mom took me for a swim in Seymour River. However, the usually emerald green water wasn't so emerald today. Instead, it was a disgusting murky, stale looking greenish water. Mom thinks it must have been because of all the digging they were doing upstream making the water all gross. We didn't stay long because of the water.............. Hopefully the water will clear up soon, or mom and I will just have to drive upstream to play...

Anyway, here are two photos of me at Seymour:

Before I got wet,

SMILE!!

After I got wet,

"Do we really have to go home??"