She will eat a little dog food if I make it more interesting with some cheese or cold cuts. She put a bit of weight on her leg this morning at potty time, but not the rest of the day. Her leg is swollen, something I was warned about and should resolve in a week. She slept pretty much the rest of the day, and when she wasn’t sleeping, she didn’t seem too stressed out. It knocked her out so hard I couldn’t get her up to pee until 10 am. I gave Kira a sedative at bedtime last night in addition to her pain pills. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged dog, Kira, tplo on Maby E M Peterson. She seems to be mostly fine with this arrangement, though I’ve been warned that after a week or so, the wound starts to itch. I let her lick her leg, just not the part where the wound is. So far, so good! Also she has managed to avoid the Cone of Shame. It will be helpful to know for when I want to leave her to go for a run. If she seems to just chill, we may be able to not have to crate her at all. I’d love to know if she cries or barks and if she tries to move to a different part of the house. I’m tempted to set up my laptop on the kitchen counter pointed at the bed she’s on and film her the next time I have to run an errand. For a little over an hour and half an hour tops the first day about three hours yesterday. We also left her alone on Friday and Saturday. Still though it will get worse as she gets better. I think in some way she comprehends it’s for her own good. But she’s a good-natured girl and very smart. She doesn’t understand why, when she gets up from the dog bed in the living room, I walk her into the kitchen to lie down under the dining table. She doesn’t understand why we won’t let her on the couch, her favorite spot, or the armchair. When she goes “fast”, she hops on her back leg and keeps the other one up. She’s slowly starting to put weight on the surgery leg, first just toe touches, then walking on it for spurts of ten seconds or so. We are so not a one dog household.Īfter spending the first couple days home mostly asleep, the past three days Kira has been more awake, pretty much like she would be normally. We would love to get a second dog again one day. And if I can train her to not pull, maybe I can train her to be less reactive around other dogs. She’s also very trainable and I’m hoping if I stick with training, something that was basically impossible when I had her and Camp, by the time she’s ready to go for a real walk, she may be better behaved on leash. She pulled like a maniac, and I think I will use these short walks to try training her to heel. She seemed happy to go beyond where we had been taking her to pee. I walked her to the end of the block and then turned around. All good news to me! My dread was being told “if only you would have called us sooner, we could have addressed it when it was easier”. He said there is nothing that is setting off alarm bells and it may be a matter of time and we can slowly start walking her again to build up the muscle. The vet said the bone is healing well, though it isn’t done. So she got her eight weeks xray two weeks early. I mostly wanted to know if she is just healing slowly but she’s on track, or if she is having problems and there is something we should be doing that we aren’t. Limping more when she walked, not putting much weight on her leg when she stood still.Īfter a week of that, I called the ortho vet to express my concerns. She made slow, slow improvements over five weeks or so, then she seemed to have a set back of some sort. I haven’t posted much because there hasn’t been much to say. Kira had her TPLO surgery just over six weeks ago.
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