Plinko Has Surgery

8th January 2008

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This was a trying day. This morning I took our puppy Plinko to the vet to have her spayed. I realize this is a very common and necessary procedure, but when it’s just a little puppy it’s hard to leave them for something as major as surgery, no matter what the reason. But I did it.

My daughter & I picked Plinko up about 5:30 this afternoon and that little dog looks so miserable it’s breaking my heart! I know she is completely drugged up and we gave her another dose of her pain medication about an hour ago, but she looks so sad! She’s such a people dog and loves to snuggle up with us. She’s feeling so miserable though she just keeps going back to her crate and crawling in to her bed. We’ve managed to get her outside twice since bringing her home so she could go potty, but that’s it.

I know that rest is really the best thing, so we just keep comforting her and making sure she’s comfortable. That’s the only thing we can do right now. I have enough pain meds to give her for the next 5 days and then her stitches will come out next week. I will certainly be glad when she gets back to feeling like her spunky self. Right now I’m having all sorts of guilty feelings, even though I know it’s something that had to be done. It’s just that how do I tell those soft little brown eyes that it was for her own good, in a way that she can understand?

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1 On January 9th, 2008, Karen said:

aw! Poor baby. Brody needs to have that done now that he is off of all his medicine for kidney problems.

Karen’s last blog post..Craygo

posted on January 9th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

2 On January 9th, 2008, lynne said:

Plinko is doing so much better today. She has been up and around and spent quite a bit of time outside today. She’s on her second big nap of the day. I’m just keeping an eye on her so she doesn’t start chewing on her stitches.

posted on January 9th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

3 On January 9th, 2008, Robyn said:

I was worried about that with Wasatch last week–but honestly–he’s never once even acted like he had surgery! I wouldn’t have minded a little tranquilization to bring his “excitement” down. He gets his stitches out tomorrow. Kisses to my Plinko Puppy!

posted on January 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

4 On January 9th, 2008, lynne said:

Robyn - Plinko did much better today, although she wasn’t her normal spazzy self, but still, I could tell she felt better. I’m more worried now about her jumping up & down on stuff and possible ripping those stitches! At least we’ve got it done.

posted on January 9th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

5 On January 12th, 2008, blueyes said:

Poor baby. I had one dog who came out of her spaying like nothing happened and she was about 10-15 lbs. The other one came out like yours, drugged up, goes to her bed to sleep and is just lithless. She was around 25 lbs maybe its been so long ago. I think the bigger they are the worse it hurts.

posted on January 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am

6 On January 12th, 2008, lynne said:

I guess the bigger they are maybe the more anesthetic they have to have so it’s harder to recover. She’s been fine as long as we remember to give her the pain pills!

posted on January 12th, 2008 at 11:50 am