"There is no psychiatrist in the 
world like a puppy licking your face."

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Big Day

Well Friday was Nelson's surgery. He got the laser for his neutering, and then he also needed to get his umbilical hernia removed too. The vet called immediatly after the surgery and said how well he did at taking the anesthesia and that the laser surgery was so great, he didn't even have one drop of blood. The umbilical hernia was, however, a little more complicated. The hernia was larger than he thought and therefore it took a little longer and he got quite a few stitches.

All in all his surgery went great, and in 10 days he gets his stitches from the hernia removed. IF he chews on his stitches he will be forced to wear a cone on his head.... :-) Hopefully he won't. Until then Nelson cannot run or jump or do anything that usually takes his energy away. So for the next few days Nelson needs to just expend his energy in other ways and last night we got him a bunch of chew toys.

Hopefully everyone has a great week and we will keep you updated on his progress.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Last summer i bought some indoor mind games for dogs at the world dog show , Exellent to use while beeing sick ect...

We have snow here now ...brrrr.... it's winter allready ! But the dogs love's it :) Especiallly the BMD ofcourse :)