Hi everyone, Our girl went for her post op check in today and everything’s fine apart from some bruising/swelling due to her moving around too much. I’m having a really hard time keeping her calm. We have kongs/dispensing toys/cardboard boxes that she’s getting for breakfast/lunch and dinner. I’m doing 5min walks up and down the road and strolls around the garden today. But she’s still crazy, wanting to run, hopping around, jumping up at everything. She’s always on the lead, sleeping in her crate but she’s started attacking the crate/smashing her head against the bars. I’ve told the vets all of this and all they could offer me was a shrug and tell me again to keep her calm before she rips herself. Don’t know how many times I can say I can’t! I was up most of last night with her trying to calm her down. They say the painkiller will make her sleep and it does in the morning when I was told to give it. By 12 she’s up and then it starts. I don’t think it’s pain as she’s like this anyway, very bouncy and energetic. I really just don’t know what to do atm, this is only two days after the op.
I know this is two months after the fact, but I wanted to let you know I feel your pain! We have our 14-month old on sedatives, and she still started bleeding, had to go in and have her stitches checked (thankfully not ripped, but she did irritate something and started bleeding). So she's now on antibiotics, pain meds, and two different sedatives...and was running around with a slipper in her mouth as I left for work this morning. She wears the cone 24/7 and we don't let her out to play, but she's just such an active girl, we can't keep her still even on drugs. It's been just over a week, hopefully we're past the worst of it but it has been quite the ordeal.
