Jig Hunt

Jig
9 year old Working Sheep dog

"After Jig's injury to his hamstring it was impossible to run an agility course comfortably. He was trying to take off by using his front end only. The treatment and rehabilitation program Tace gave him meant he had to initially stop any activities that may aggravate his injury. Over the next 6 months, he had a strict regime of treatments and exercises to gradually build back up to agility competitions. Once back jig qualified for Crufts and came 2nd in the UK Agility National Finals.

I have no doubt this was thanks to Tace and the program she gave us. Sports Massage has become a very important part of agility for me now, and as an agility trainer I am now passing on what I have learnt to my clients to ensure their dogs have a long and injury free agility career."

Shaun Hunt

What Tace Says:

Shortly after I met Jig he came down with Bronchopneumonia, which in turn affected his nervous system affecting the nerves that supplied his facial muscles causing them to droop. With this going on, his body tightened up and his pelvis was pulled out of alignment, which put his hind muscles under excess strain causing a secondary hamstring tear. It took an incredibly long time to rehabilitate him back to a fitness level that allowed him to compete again, but with Shaun’s co-operation (which was extremely frustrating for him), we got Jig back as fit as he could be under the circumstances.

He did us all proud in the National Finals, coming 2nd to a 4 year old dog and then qualifying in the Team event to qualify for Crufts.