To be honest, once Riley was feeling more like his old self I had to give him a tiny dose of benedryl periodically to calm him down. With Coco around it was just too much of a temptation for him to go frolic and play with her and that's all he wanted to do so he would jump in the pen area and just go bezerk in the crate. We even ended up with an unscheduled trip to the Vet E.R. because his leg swelled up due to him just going nuts when we took Coco out to be groomed on a Saturday.
Trying to keep Riley calm was paramount to his recovery and the vet had given me other sedative-type drugs to help calm him but everything had the opposite effect and benedryl was all he could take; that seemed to just help him settle down and not be so crazy.
The first time Riley fractured his rear leg, he fell off his puppy stairs. The second injury was from falling off or jumping off from our bed and landing wrong (my husband was on the bed with him and we would never let him jump down on his own since he had already been through one fracture but my husband never saw him get down so we think he may have slipped off while chewing on one of his chewies). We now keep him on a leash whenever he is on our bed with us. I thought that his first injury was just the worse thing that could happen to him/us, but I was wrong. The second injury was far worse and much harder on Riley (recovery-wise) and financially it doubled what we paid the first time around at the Vet. Spclst. So if you are bringing your baby up on the bed with you, please, please take precautions! Riley was so pitiful with his second injury and could barely hold himself up to go potty; it was just a very hard injury for him to come back from....
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