Patton is continuing to do well. The swelling of the surgery areas is going down and the incisions are looking nice. No redness or oozing. Each day his walking seems to be getting better as well. Not as unsteady as he was on Saturday. The picture in this post was taken this morning. At times he will put full weight on the foot, though not for long, most he holds it like in the picture("toe touching").
He has made no attempts on his incisions but if he is unsupervised for any length of time the E-collar or we have a blow up type of collar that he must wear. The problem with the inflatable collar is that he can still reach under his leg and down by his tail. So not a great solution for long periods of time. I did notice that one of the stitches on his rear has broken. I am almost positive that it was not him. I fear he may have caught it on a sharp edge in his cage. On our previous dog, when he had stitches, you could see that he had chewed the stitches. But Patton's wound is clean, no evidence of Patton licking it and the cut in the stitch is too perfect, like a scissor snipped it. Definitely need to keep an eye on it though.
Night is another story though. He is definitely NOT happy about being in his crate while we are all upstairs. He started howling at around midnight and my oldest son couldn't take it so he slept downstairs(or should I say attempted to sleep). We have reminded him that Patton needs to get used to the idea because he is just going to go through all this again next month. Breaks your heart to hear him crying and howling but he is not steady enough, or ready to make the journey upstairs. But if we give in now it will be worse later on.
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