Not how I expected to be involved in my puppy’s healing process but it beats trying to remember how the incision looked when he first got home. Now I have concrete visual proof of whether or not it is in fact getting better, worse, more or less inflamed etc… he was a sad boy when I brought him home. He whimpered a fair bit yesterday regardless of the w4 hours worth of pain killers he’d been shot up with. I think he just felt funny from the anesthesia, and the missing parts he spends so much time cleaning every single day. I think his coin purse was his very own pride and joy. Now the spare change is gone. Yeeted! Yoinked! Stolen by the veterinary hospital. He is dismayed to say the least.
I also think he’s upset about the surgical onesie he has to wear thos week to stop him from worrying the wound. We have a cone coming too, as he has somehow managed to weasel his muzzle up one leg to get to the wound. Damn smart dog. It might take a few months for him to lose interest in his testicularly fueled habits. Once all that testosterone Peter’s out hopefully he’ll stop all the urine licking, drooling, teeth chattering, and numb tongue paralysis which he loves do much when we go out for a walk.
Keeping him low key is proving to be more difficult than anticipated. No off leash walks for the first couple days. No “real” walks either. A mooch about in the yard to pee under a watchful eye. Keeping an eye on bowel movement consistency and frequency. The whole nine yards here folks. Not much to do now but get him back go full health as I can’t undo what was done. This ain’t no etch a sketch my boys jewels done got stoled off him. Bruh!
So by the end of this week I will have a fine pile of dog scrotum photos ready to delete, assuming that is, that he doesn’t worry the wound and make it 10x worse for himself. I have found him licking his front foreleg where they shaved a spot for his IV. I am to watch for coughing, as the intubation for surgery might have inflamed his throat a bit. I’ll have to keep the house quiet so I notice something like that. Being hearing impaired I find it difficult to isolate sounds. But I would think a dogs cough would be out of the ordinary enough that my ears would potentially catch it. I hope.
He is eating, and drinking. Has used the facilities a couple times, so I think he is doing ok there. I gave him his pain meds along with breakfast so he should be feeling sleepy, or at least slightly less sore. I hope. It wasn’t our intention to hurt the little guy. It was a foundational aspect of our adoption agreement that he get fixed, so no way around it really. A little bit of pain now should fix any major concerns of him rampaging down the neighbourhood humping everything in sight if he escaped our yard at any point. No new pups!
How is your Tuesday going? Halloween is really getting close now.
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