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Originally Posted by yavenay  Duchess was playing when I went to pick her. She was alert, jumping and didn't seem in pain. However, I tried my best to restrict her movements. I keep her in her expen the first several days. She hated it. Have you ever tried keeping an hyper active puppy confined? Anyway I honestly let Duchess out after only a few days and she was fine. I did make sure she didn't do any jumping on couches etc.......I restricted her movements. I just didn't keep her crated.
However I only did that based on her behavior. Energetic puppies aren't usually in pain. Had she been lethargic or groggy, she would have remained confined or a trip back to the vet. |
Actually dogs hide pain extremely well and their endorphins will go up when they get excited and mask the pain. Callie had a soft tissues injury once that she was limping hard until we got to the emergency vet and didn't limp but as soon as we got home she was limping again. In animals pain is seen as weakness. Now I didn't pen or crate Callie after her spay but she was the only dog so there wasn't another dog to wrestle with. Callie was older when I got Joey so he was not crated or penned either. Now with Penny who wanted to play with Joey it was a whole other nightmare to the point the vet had to give us sedatives for Penny that did not work either. She could climb and jump out of one pen so I put her in a soft pen with a mesh top and she dug through the fabric and got out so we did just a regular crate and it pissed her off. When she was cleared at 2 weeks I was thrilled. Ollie could get out of the pen too so due to it not being full open surgery I just watched him very well and he didn't have actual stitches to rip either. I didn't use the nasty ecollar either I bought a soft one from someone who used to be a member here and only put them on at night when I couldn't watch them because they were not big lickers. I fear if any of the youngest 3 have to go on crate rest for any reason like Callie did it is going to be a nightmare! Callie was so chill and relaxed and wouldn't climb the pen but her siblings are not the same.