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communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. Okay, rehab. We're talking rehab. Now, Alice, you have got a particularly

interesting take on rehab, I think, because you had a pretty, well, unusual experience with your rehome dog.

Do you want to tell us a little bit more about it?

Yeah.

When we got Bonnie, about two or three months in, she started to limp.

So we obviously took her to the vet and had this investigated.

And to cut a long story short, she actually needed

both of her cruciate ligaments operated on. So we were in for quite a long road, really,

in terms of two different surgeries and intermittent recovery period, so that around that.

So, yeah, it was about the sort of, yeah, it took about

nine months start to finish. Now when I know people are listening, they're thinking rehab in one

direction, rehab in another direction. And I've got lots of different examples of rehab from rehabbing a

sewus injury to rehabbing a dog post spay to rehabbing like just many, many, many, many, many different experiences of rehab.

Now, Alice, when I'm thinking about your specific rehab experience, what was the most stressful part for you?

And I think it's worth saying just quite how big Bonnie is.

Yeah, so Bonnie is a canicorso mix.

So she's quite a bit of dog.

So, and she's also a nutty but nice dog.

So actually the most stressful part for us was helping her to get through,

especially the earlier, more vulnerable stages of her recoveries,

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