Avalanche Keeps On Truckin'

It has now been 17 months since our "special needs" Siberian Husky, Avalanche suffered his spinal cord injury and he continues to make amazing progress. For having been paralyzed from the waist down less than a year and a half ago, he can now walk around the block on his own without any assistance! He sometimes gets going too fast and falls and then often he can get himself back up but sometimes he wants help. He lets me know which way it is going to go. Walking requires a tremendous amount of energy and focus on his part and he often gets excited to see kids or other dogs and just tries to move too fast. Yesterday he headed down the hill and walked all the way into a new neighborhood. I know he headed into this neighborhood because he heard kids out playing. When he was first learning to use his wheelchair or K9 cart this is where he would head. He loves children and the attention he gets from them. He did encounter a big cat in a garage of someone we know. This is one hell of a cat! The cat is very territorial and was stalking my 80 pound dog. Avalanche was so confused! He is used to stalking cats since we have two at home, so he barked at the cat and then tried to play with the cat, but of course, the cat would have nothing to do with this. We were not able to let it play itself out since I had to get my son off to a basketball practice, but it was very funny to watch. We will have to see what he has in store today for his evening walk.