Adorable Underwater Dogs In Slow Motion

Greyfriars Veterinary Rehabilitation and Hydrotherapy Referrals give us a window into their world - helping some adorable dogs recover using hydrotherapy. Using slow motion cameras, we see exactly how dogs swim underwater.

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today on slo-mo we've broken out of the studio somewhere far more exotic to bring you something quite special [Music] so today we've joined Angela Griffiths who owns Greyfriars veterinary rehabilitation referrals so what are we are going to see today you're going to see a number of different dogs swimming and you're going to see how they move in the water we use the buoyancy of the water because it unweight them and it takes throwing up their joints and makes it much more comfortable for the need to move but it also means that they have to work hard so it's like going to the gym and working out against weights that kind of thing so yeah supposed to grow muscle and replace their core spray and what we got going on behind us here and we've got a large heated swimming pool because it's heated it has to make Delta move more comfortably increases the blood supply to their peripheral areas their limbs which aids with reducing pain and also that helps them move more easily so we think of doggy paddle that we passed and dual wheel ends yeah I mean are there any different kinds of puddle of you sort of turn they all have their own particular style and you'll see if the thoughts moving quite differently and the difference between swimming and on land is when they're swimming they're really using their front end very strongly they're reaching forward and they're feeling themselves through the walls are they using their chest muscles and they use their hind legs as fertile as possible unless we give them some challenge or some work to do well first up we got Wooster yeah so fingers crossed eaters with your forms yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] so we're currently joined by a new scam called Brewster Hoover is rather speedier than the golden retrievers and it's been interesting watching him because he seems to move quite fast almost like a sprinter and he seems to be doing that rotary gallop so right right left left left in a big sort of circle which is what they do when they're really going very fast on the ground so just the same in the water [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's been quite tricky today trying to film these guys just because they're having such a great time you don't really know where they're gonna go they've not got a kind of pre destined path that they're gonna follow so it's great seein and have fun but it can be a bit hairy trying to catch it so with us now we've got a ridge back with barley bridge backs have been designed patented for being big muscly dogs and dogs normally when they're walking around in the lands use their hind legs there's big old flanks to run really quickly we saw that in the greyhounds but in the water they sort of they're back to front really no need to drive themselves forward with their front limbs so Barney's really stretching out just the same way we do [Music] [Music] the next up we've got Lizzy who's a spaniel and it seems she actually just loves jumping in the water [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]