Thursday March 22 was Chanel's surgery D+8. Chanel has been way too smart for her own good. She has figured out ways to get to her incision area to pick at:
(1) She moves around inside her crate so that the soft e-collar will flip (see the picture below).
(2) She voluntarily goes into the crate...so that she can hide and pick at it all she wants!!
(3) She chews OVER the e-collar...since it's soft, she can actually chew over it and pick at the incision!!
80% of her incision was healing beautifully, but the area where the pins were placed must be irritating so she keeps wanting to gnaw it, to the point where it looked almost open!! We tried wrapping the area with gauze and self-adhering wraps at nights, but they seemed to come off easily. We also tried putting on a hard e-collar (aka the cone of shame!!), but Chanel either refused to wear it or struggled fiercely to take it off when we managed to put it on her.
Another problem was that she has not eaten her normal food or drunk plain water at all for the entire week. She would eat some boiled chicken breast meats and Weruva's natural dog food along with chicken broth, but nothing else. Especially the fact that she refused to drink water really concerned us. So I had to talk to Dr. Keats; for her eating/drinking problems and the suture. He prescribed Reglan and Pepcid and I made an appointment to have her suture looked at for Friday.
New problem: administering a liquid medication to Chanel...tablets are a lot easier because we can just stick it in a piece of Greenies Pill Pockets (a wonder product!!) and She loves the taste.
(1) She moves around inside her crate so that the soft e-collar will flip (see the picture below).
(2) She voluntarily goes into the crate...so that she can hide and pick at it all she wants!!
(3) She chews OVER the e-collar...since it's soft, she can actually chew over it and pick at the incision!!
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| Flipped soft e-collar |
Another problem was that she has not eaten her normal food or drunk plain water at all for the entire week. She would eat some boiled chicken breast meats and Weruva's natural dog food along with chicken broth, but nothing else. Especially the fact that she refused to drink water really concerned us. So I had to talk to Dr. Keats; for her eating/drinking problems and the suture. He prescribed Reglan and Pepcid and I made an appointment to have her suture looked at for Friday.
New problem: administering a liquid medication to Chanel...tablets are a lot easier because we can just stick it in a piece of Greenies Pill Pockets (a wonder product!!) and She loves the taste.
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