Just wanted to check and see how Gilmore is doing... my Riley had surgery back in Sept. from a hip fracture and had to be crated/confined for 8 weeks (he was 11 months at the time of his injury). We have a puppy pen that we kept him in and also kept him leashed to the coffee table whenever we were right there with him so that he had a bit of a break from the pen. It's definately challenging when you have a young dog at that age and you have to confine it for weeks on end. He became a huge lap dog during this period and that is still his favorite place to be. We have another Yorkie which made it doubly challenging as Riley wanted to go play so badly, but couldn't
I could/can always gage how he's feeling by how much he wants to play with Coco. He still takes Metacam periodically as needed and we now refer to him as our "special needs" puppy. This was his second fracture, second surgery and second time he's had to be confined for weeks on end...