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Thursday, February 8, 2018

Echo Solution???

I have been waking up in the morning aching all over due to having the memory foam mattress on the floor. Echo has slept with me ever since he was adopted. We went in our camper and when we adopted him he slept on the king sized bed with myself and Gypsy and Bozwell slept with Carol on the Queen size bed. We tried to keep him out of our bed once and he looked like a beaten dog and totally rejected. We didn't try that again he looked so dejected.

When he slipped the disc in his back he was prohibited from jumping as that would re injure his back and could cause permanent damage. Therefore I put the 12" memory foam mattress on the floor so he only had one step to go to get in bed with me. Once you sink in memory foam it only compresses so far and it was painful to sleep on the floor - not to mention it is hard to get up during the night or in the morning.

Carol saw what she thought was a solution when she found a 4" solid foam mattress on Walmart.com site. Unfolded it makes into a four inch firm mattress and when folded it makes into a low sofa. We thought it would be a good stepping place for Echo so he would not jump up or down and injure himself before he is fully healed. We bought a full size and twin size for the end of the bed and side. Today we gave it a try, having brought the bed frame up and set the bed upon it again.

As can be seen after a few trial attempts it only took him once to figure out how to go up the steps to the bed and go down the same way. We tried all three dogs who mastered it with ease. Did I mention German Shepherds are highly intelligent. As can be seen in the photo above he is up on the bed with confidence now. During the day we can fold it up and slide it under the bed frame with no problem.

Maybe now we can all get a good nights sleep and wake up pain free and rested. It has been seven weeks since he injured himself and hopefully this will work for him and he can get up and down into bed safely. His back legs are still weak so jumping would be difficult for him but we don't want him to forget and try it and end up with a worse injury.

Incidentally he has his thunder coat on as he developed a sebaceous cyst on his side and he kept licking it to where it was getting raw. The thunder coat covers the cyst and we apply wound spray that has healed it but he has an appointment for next week to have it and a few others removed surgically.   

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