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Originally Posted by deeda9999  Thanks for asking about Gilmore! He seems to feel great and the hard part is keeping him confined. I am forced to keep him in a small crate otherwise he will run back and forth and stand up constantly on his hind legs. Taking him out to potty in the snow was nuts because all he wanted to do was jump in it and even keeping him on a very short leash he still managed to do a little. We are ending week 6 of confinement and have 6 more as they want us to do a total of 12. He is kept on a leash all day unless he is in the crate. He cries and whines a lot unless he is on my lap or right next to me. We are in a routine but I wind up putting my chores and stuff on hold so I can keep him company. It has been tough as I am sure you well know. We are allowed to take 3 ten minute walks a day which he loves and fights because he never wants to come back into the house and I of course don't blame him. He was such a nutty life loving puppy and his world has changed in the last 6 weeks. I am just hoping he will be able to resume life as usual at the end of his confinement. Of course I will be a nervous wreck LOL. Poor Riley! I hope he is doing well. I can't imagine 2 surgeries. I would do whatever it takes for Gilmore as well but when his confinement is over I am going to throw us both a big party!!!!!! |
To be honest, once Riley was feeling more like his old self but still had to be confined, 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 watching TV and Riley was chewing on his chewie and my husband never saw him get down so we think he may have slipped off while chewing on his chewie). We now keep him on a leash whenever he is on our bed with us, so if you are bringing Gilmore up on the bed with you this may be something you might want to consider...