This is poor Amber wearing a large plastic cone to keep her from chewing out her stitches on her arm, as she DID right before she was brought to us to take home after her surgery and tests yesterday. Our vet didn’t have one her size, so we drove to Tractor Supply to get one.
She shed the band-aid and wrapping the vet put on her elbow just before we put her in the truck, so I got a huge band-aid from our supplies and used the vet wrap we keep on hand to cover it again. She shed THAT, too. The ‘elbow’ is a difficult place to wrap up. Since she can’t reach the stitches now to chew, I’m just leaving it uncovered.
As all dogs do, she hates the cone. She is slowly adapting. I just ordered a SOFT one from Amazon, since when I called the vet to schedule her two-week follow-up appointment and ask how long Amber should wear the cone, the answer was ‘at least a week, and possibly ’til she comes to get her stitches out in two weeks.’ She still won’t like the cone, but this soft one will be more comfortable. It should be delivered tomorrow.
The big thing is healing now. She is feeling better and the lump in her neck is getting smaller. The other big thing is watching my husband, who ALMOST took one of Amber’s antibiotic pills this morning…
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