Charlie had his second acupuncture treatment this past Wednesday night, January 22nd. It still amazes me that Charlie just sits there while the vet inserts the needles. In the picture above, you can see the lavender-colored needle tip sticking out from between Charlie’s eyebrows. That’s the first needle that the vet inserts during his treatment. She says that it’s supposed to relax him. It must work, since he pretty much just lies there while she inserts all of the other needles.

Charlie is doing better overall. He is still limping on his left shoulder a bit. But his back end doesn’t seem as weak. I don’t know if it’s due to the acupuncture or not. But there is a definite improvement since he started the treatments. And the focus of his treatments are supposed to be in improving the strength and use of his back legs.

His energy levels have also improved, and he’s back to wanting to play every night. Unfortunately, he always gets geared up to play about an hour before we’re set to go to bed. Then when we tell him it’s bed time, he wants to keep playing.

I guess we’ll see how the treatments progress over the next month. He won’t be able to have his next acupuncture session until after February 11th, which is two weeks out. I hope he continues to feel better until then.

I suppose that, at a minimum, no harm is being done to him, so we’ll continue the acupuncture. And I’ll let you know how it goes.