💡[CASE STUDY] Shadow, the Great Dane...

Published: Thu, 02/03/22

It is with great pleasure, ChiroSimple presents our new guest collaborator, Dr. Emily Puente...She not only will be sharing immensely valuable information with you (periodically) in our newsletters, but also consults with us for future program enhancements. She's very bright, has a snappy authentic humor, commands her life...and is as passionate as we are about animal chiropractic. Without further adieu...

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Hi! I’m Emily Puente, DC, CACCP, CST. I practice in the great state of Texas and am certified to work on both humans and animals. I am a firefighter wife, mom of 3 kids and caregiver to a whole lot more animals as we have a hobby farm with alpacas and chickens. When I’m not in the office you can find me gardening or working out in my garage. I’m a true philomath and see myself as forever a student learning from as many great minds as possible. I am an enneagram 8 and as such love to live life with conversations filled with movie quotes that are drizzled with dry humor and sprinkled with sarcasm.

I am stoked to have this shtick of sharing with you on a regular basis about my experiences with animal chiropractic in my office slash completely unqualified motivational messages.

Gooooood morning Vietnam!!!

My first story I wanted to share with you is my first visit experience with a 195lb Great Dane named Shadow. A little backstory about this pup is that he was formerly owned by a drug dealer and utilized as a guard dog (rightly so with his big ol’ scary self). One day things went south and the landlord of the property ended up calling services to obtain custody of Shadow. He was then taken into a rescue and thankfully it ended up that this dog from New York was adopted by his now loving parents here in (you guessed it) the great state of Texas.

Fast forward to him coming into our office….

He presented to our office with pretty standard issues of stiffness and trouble getting up so in my eyes a perfect candidate for care based on his history.

So here I am opening the door to my treatment room after a couple quick knocks and I’m greeted with a slow and steady terrifying growl that begins to get louder as he goes to stand up and face me while I enter. So like many of you who may have had similar experiences I had a choice to make…..do I freak out and risk things going south or take a deep breath and hope for the best?

When needed, I can be cool as a cucumber, so thankfully I was able to snap out of my typical squirrel-like mental state with the amount of things I manage on a daily basis in my head and really focus on creating the environment needed for this visit.

So with coaching from his owner I was able to assess and detect areas that would benefit from care and we went on to implement safety measures and try to find a muzzle for him just to protect ourselves as he had never had an adjustment before.

Welp. I don’t have a muzzle that’ll fit a pony so I was just going to wrap a leash around him and call it good but that made him extremely agitated so we took it off.

Then I just looked at his owner and said, “Well it looks like this is going to go 1 of 2 ways and I hope it’s the way I’d prefer.”

Once I started working on him, he must have felt immediate relief because he looked back at me and his eyes softened and his back end just melted into my hands.

He since then has come in for regular care and his owners say that he truly loves coming and they notice improvement after visits. And the best part is that he is a huge hit (pun intended) when he comes into the office as people just love seeing him, all of his majestic beauty trotting through the waiting room for his appointment.

So in short I just wanted to say “trust the process” because you know way more than you know.

In health,

Emily the Enneagram Eight

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