There are many dogs that are full of energy and do not get enough satisfaction from a long walk. Running after a ball for hours is not good exercise for your dog's health.
Of course, our Happy Doggy Treatmill is not a replacement for the wonderful time with your dog but it can certainly be a great added value in the life of you and your dog.
A dog walks or runs with an asymmetrical movement, on our Happy Doggy Treadmill your dog walks in a straight line. This reduces the chance of causing an overload of the joints and/or muscles.
A 10-minute workout on our Happy Doggy Treadmill is approximately equivalent to a brisk walk of 60 minutes. Our Happy Doggy Treadmill is not only for dogs with a high energy level but certainly also for dogs with injuries, rehabilitation, overweight or to support muscle building or for example a dog with arthritis.
Our Happy Doggy treadmill is mechanical that means that it will be driven entirely by your dog's own muscle power and is designed in such a way that it moves along with the movement of your dog.
This way it does not cause unwanted pressure on the joints. Due to the natural movement, your dog cannot become overloaded.
Book your spot on our Happy Doggy treadmill now so you can give your dog the exercise they deserve!
We only saw it happen from a distance that he could no longer use his hindquarters. When we ran to him, we saw that he tried to get up but screamed in pain. When we arrived, we immediately helped the dog to lie down.
Fortunately, our dogs are trained to follow commands under all circumstances. You don't want the dog to not trust its owner and try to run off cours of the pain.
It was already late, but we immediately called our own vet out of his bed and briefly explained what happend to him. Because our vet knows us inside and out, he knows that when we call him at this late hour, it is really very urgent.
He told us to carefully put the dog in the car and come straight to the clinic.
That was quite a challenge, the dog can just bite because of the pain, without intending to. We decided to put a muzzle on him, we also use this during work so the dog is used to it. Then we grabbed a coat that we always have in stock in our vehicles and put him on it.
This way we could lift him without any further pressure on the body and transport him to the car. We quickly drove to the vet. When we got there he was already waiting for us with a stretcher. We put the dog including the coat on it and went inside for X-rays.
We had already determined that it was not the hips but a "blockage" in the middle of the back. When looking at the X-rays, our suspicions turned out to be true. One of the vertebrae had shifted so much that he was paralyzed from the middle of the back. After discussing every single option with the vet, it was decided to leave our dog behind for the night and see how he would be in the morning.
The next morning we went back to the clinic and the condition had not improved. He will stay in the clinic and put him on painkillers and other medication to see if it will improve with complete rest.
We deliberately did not visit him that day because this dog is so full temper that, despite the pain, he only wants to work and that did not benefit his health.
The second day we went back to the clinic, how will he be that day.
Will there be any improvement?
Will we lose our top dog?
The vet came outside with a smile, there was good news.
He had been out, with support from his hindquarters but he "walked". What a relief that was. Will things turn out well for this top dog after all.
Surely it cannot be that a once selected patroldog for the Dutch PatrolDog Championships should now spend its life with short walks, no more play and certainly no more work?
We will never do that to our service dogs.
In consultation with the vet, it was decided to get a treadmill and train him on it in the hope that he will get better again.
That same evening we drove all over the Netherlands to get a treadmill. The next day we started training immediately, which went surprisingly well and he enjoyed it very much.
After two weeks we would come for a check-up. When we arrived at the clinic, we first had a discussion about how the two weeks had gone.
One of us had already taken the dog out of the vehicle to let him pee, you don't want them to do that in the clinic. The vet did see a dog but didn't realize that this was the dog that had been paralyzed two weeks earlier.
He asked where the dog was and when we indicated that this was the dog, he couldn't believe his eyes and thought we were kidding him.
It really was the dog in question, he walked completely straight again with his tail straight up. Of course we were still careful with him and didn't ask strange things of him, but after a month he amazed us when he jumped, from a standstill, over 1.5 meters high fence as he used to do. We could no longer see anything of his paralysis when working with him.
Within 1.5 month he then went back to work as a patrol-, detection dog. During the higher risk work we naturally spared him. We have more PatrolDogs that are also extremely suitable to do the work.