[Kayleen22]

it's been a week since her surgery.
I realized the reason she wasn't taking her pills was because the Tramadol isn't a coated pill so the bitterness is very easy to smell and taste. Her antibiotic pill is coated and she has no problem taking that with some cheese. So i'm lucky if i get her to take one a day. I've just been giving her two doses of metacam instead.
For the past week she didn't really make any sudden movements or attempts to jump. I could leave the room for 10 min come back and she wouldn't have moved an inch. But today she jumped off the couch while i walked out of the room to get something to drink. I'm sort of freaking out thinking her surgery has now just reversed but she didn't cry out or anything and she doesn't seem to be limping so i can only hope it didn't do any damage.
She also didn't do a whole lot of licking the first 3 or 4 days so i rarely used the cone collar. But now if she's not eating or chewing a bone...she's trying to eat the staples on her knees.
She's been going potty fine but she hasn't pooped in quite a few days. I'm done with the sling as of today and i will be using a leash from this point on. She takes FOREVER to poop and use to walk back and forth across the yard for a good 10 minutes before dropping. So she won't like to be limited to a small patch of grass but hopefully she'll get use to it!