Warming Up Your Dog Walks - Vivaldi Winter Largo Arranged for Left Hand by Lisa Spector

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Welcome to episode eight of my Zen pet, the first podcast with music, for pets and their people.

New Speaker (00:21):
Hi, I'm Lisa Spector, your pet coming Maestro. In a moment I'm going to play probably my favorite left-hand arrangement at the piano. But before that a short training tip, which is a little bit more of a health tip.

New Speaker (00:36):
It's something that may be obvious to you, but wasn't obvious to me, we've been talking quite a bit about hikes and walking our dogs recently. I talked about a silent hike and intentional kinds of walks. And now we're going to talk about warming up your dogs on walks.

New Speaker (00:54):
When Sanchez, my last dog rest in peace, was nine he developed a slipped disc in his neck. Fortunately, we made it through it with great acupuncture treatment and he had another five years. And my holistic vet shared a tip with me, which looking back seems so obvious.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
But at the time I really wasn't aware. She advised me to, if we were going to go on and off leash walk, make sure the first 10 to 15 minutes were on leash to make sure his body's really warmed up. He, by then he was a senior dog and it was really important to get him warmed up before he started running.

New Speaker (01:32):
Gina, my lab now is turning 12 in June in a couple of months. And although she's in great shape, we're still running agility. She chases the Frisbee and the ball. I still make sure with her and her on our off-leash walks, that she is in her harness on her on leash walk first, before I let her off to run.

New Speaker (02:00):
So a simple really health tip more than anything else. And it might be obvious to you, but it was helpful to me going onto music.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
This is an arrangement of a Vivaldi piece. You will probably recognize the melody. It's very famous. It's the Vavaldi Spring for him Four Seasons for solo violin plus string orchestra. Violin is very high range instrument, high frequencies charge the canine nervous system, which is not generally what we want for our dogs.

New Speaker (02:36):
This is arranged not only for piano, but it's arranged for left-hand piano. Lower frequencies have been shown to calm the canine nervous system and proven to relieve anxiety issues. Enjoy with your pops. Hope you're settled in at home and enjoying together. Maybe you're on the sofa. Give them a kiss for me, a beautiful, beautiful melody played with my hand only

Speaker 2 (05:10):
[music]

Speaker 1 (05:28):
I hope you and your pups enjoy that. If you'd like more music from Dog Gone Calm, there's a free 19 minute playlist waiting for you at myzenpet.com. If you know of any other pet parents that would benefit from this podcast. Thanks for sharing.
This is Lisa and Gina zenning out.