It sure is amazing to see how well Myah has recovered and adapted to the loss of her front leg!
Especially early in the day, she is full of energy. She still manages to slow herself down later in the day. That’s something I thought I might have trouble with. (Her overdoing it.) She often gets an energy burst, or a second wind, in the early evening.
When winter ends, (Its been snowing all day for two days.) I plan to go on short walks or hikes with her. I’ll very gradually increase the distance. I’m now thinking it will be harder on me! [grin] I knew I’d need to walk a bit faster to keep up with her tripawd-hop pace. I wasn’t too worried, I am a ‘fast-walker’ to begin with. Now I think I’m going to have to read up on speed walking techniques. Just walking fast is a bit hard on my knees. I guess the hips will need to move a lot more. Now I understand why speed-walkers walk like they do. Perhaps I’ll just pretend that I’m from the “Ministry of Silly Walks’ and get over it. [wink] So the gradual increasing of distance may be more for my benefit, rather than Myah’s
The previous two days I’ve been taking short videos, and photos of Myah with my iPhone. Using my new favorite app: Splice. I “threw together” another video compilation, and posted it on YouTube. Every time I make one of these, I figure out more things I can do with the app. So be prepared for probably too many effects.
May 1st, 2016 at 2:37 am
Oooooh! We could NEVER have too many videos, photos or cute effects of Myah, this is so much fun watching her get on with life and inspire!
Thanks sooo much for the fun blog posts. I’ve had a ball reading them tonight. Can’t wait for the next batch! xoxo
May 1st, 2016 at 3:42 am
Wonderful to see how well she has adapted and how happy she is!
And now I’m off to download ‘Splice’.
Karen
May 1st, 2016 at 6:29 pm
HI Karen, this is Randy.
I think it is much easier to edit and splice video on my iPhone, than it is with a desktop. Although it may NOW be easier on the desktop compared to the last time I tried it. Although I think you must still have to buy and learn ‘the program’
Unlike most apps that keep changing the way they operate, Splice has kept the basic formula to create videos the same. (from stills, videos, or both) Each upgrade add new features! I used to have an app for one type of photo editing, and others for different tasks. Now between the built-in editing features I can now do INSIDE the Splice App, or INSIDE my favorite collage app: “photogrid” I don’t use most of my many old photo editing apps anymore. The built in editing features, in the standard iPhone photo app, do most the things I need to edit my photos.
I think its funny that I don’t use the same apps on my iPad as much. I got so used to using my phone to do them (before I had the iPad) Plus the phone is small and lightweight and handy. I made at least one of those videos on a lunch break.
HINT: take a lot of photos and videos, then delete half of them. I have often removed excess video at the beginning and end of my videos, by using the regular iPhone photo app. I recently discovered that I can save (TRIM) several small portions of a particular video and save them as a new clips. Then I can assemble them together in ‘SPLICE’, along with any photos.
I used to take literally hundreds of photos of my grandkids, and then end up with maybe 25% usable photos. Since the video quality on the phones have improved, I now often take video of the kids, and dogs. Then I can take screenshots from those videos to get the photos I really want. (I edit them, and I especially crop them, so they are not in the 16×9 video format ratio size.) Don’t stop taking photos though. The little ones, kids and dogs, move so much that you can’t always get a sharp frame to ‘snap’. I am looking forward to upgrading from the 5s to the 6s iPhone! Only another month away from 2 yrs. I have noted the much better video quality on the 6-models
(My own personal rule: I wait at least 2 years between iPhones. I had the 3Gs, the 4s & 5s. You can also get on the “4, 5 & 6 model schedule. But I have found that the new models (like the 6) are vastly improved by the later ‘fix or improve’ models that have the “s” attached to them. [The ‘s’ is for Steve ;-)]
May 1st, 2016 at 3:50 am
Are you kiddin’? We LOVE videos and pictures of the ADORABLE Myah!! 🙂
She is just delightful a d clearly a very, very smart girl! Very smart!! You are so gentle with her and she is so attentive to you.
The way she rolled around a d then grabbed ner stuffy…just so darn cute!
You have every reason to be proud of Myah! I know we are! It’s such a privilege to be on this journey with this very special gal!
She is loving ner life on three legs and loving being loved you! I think you both adore each other!! 🙂
And btw…..great “production” with that app!
Looking forward ro more Myah!
Love ro all!
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!
May 1st, 2016 at 5:55 pm
Hi Sally!
MY HUMAN, Randy, finally let me add content here!
One of my favorite things to do is lay on my back and play with my toys. I like to hold them up and pretend that they are playing back at me. Especially when they have long legs.
Now, with only one arm, it took me awhile to figure out how to modify my ‘game’ I’m still learning. A big part of that game is when I get to scratch my back on the carpet. I can still do that without any changes!
May 1st, 2016 at 2:08 pm
What a wonderful video. We are new today. Our goldendoodle Holly is scheduled for rear leg amputation on May 12 due to cancer. We are feeling very anxious and am hoping by visiting this site it will help us. Seeing this doodle romp and play makes us realize they can do well with 3 legs.
May 1st, 2016 at 5:49 pm
Hi Holly, and her human, Sue.
MY HUMAN, Randy, finally let me add content here!
To Sue: It is super important to be aware of the feelings you have around Holly. Most of her attitude, before and after the surgery, will be directly affected by your mood. You silly Humans think you can talk to us. We ‘feel’ what you are saying, and we do learn certain words, and strings of words. It took awhile for my human to figure this out. We communicate with body movements and postures. We also communicate through a psychic connection to another animal/person’s emotion. It took my human awhile to realize that he doesn’t need to bark out the commands. I can hear very well! So he gives me my trick commands nice and quietly. If he talks loud, I know something is up! Either with his behavior or mine.
To Holly: We really don’t need that spare leg. Sure its easier with four. Us canines like to rise to the challenge! Trust me, take it slowly, you’ll get through this! I knew that my leg hurt a lot and I could smell the scary feeling (Randy calls it cancer) So after a few tough days of recovery, I finally figured out that its a good thing that leg is gone!
May 2nd, 2016 at 3:39 am
Myah! You’re looking so great!!! Murphy loves to sit pretty and roll over, too 🙂
Donna