Guppy is one of my rehab patients. She is about 4 years old and a mixed breed dog. There’s nothing about her to indicate that she’s partly any of the “classic” breeds for IVDD like Dachsunds, Corgis, Bassetts, or French bulldogs. Last year over the holidays she jumped down from a deck (a fairly high jump for her) and her owner heard her cry out. Within a few hours she was showing pain and having trouble walking. She was treated medically at first (with cage rest and medications) but she continued to worsen until she was completely paralyzed and had even lost deep pain perception, the last ability to disappear with increasingly severe IVDD. She had emergency surgery at Auburn around the New Year and has been slowly recovering ever since. When I first saw her in May, she could move her hind feet but was too weak to stand. If we put her in a standing position, she would sway and fall to the side or slowly sink to the floor. This past Thursday when I walked into her house for her regular appointment she was standing by the door! I was delighted, and so was her owner. Here is a video of her walking. You will see that she is not walking at all normally, but she is walking! Her gait is a really good example of ataxia: she crosses her hind limbs and doesn’t have great balance. But she has come a long long way and she will continue to gain strength and improve.