Porter has made some more improvements in the last week! We are weaning him off his Tramadol – he’s down to 1 pill a day. We started him on his new Honest Kitchen food. We weren’t sure if he’s like it, but he loves it! We’ve been fixing it with canned tuna, but are working in beef and chicken as we can get it on sale from the store. He devours it as soon as we put it in from of him. We also are able to easily mix in his supplements and meds, which is a nice added benefit (someone posted that it was great for that!).
Porter also started chewing his rawhides again. It was funny – he wasn’t very good at holding his bones with two paws. It always felt like he wasn’t able to work both of them at the same time to hold the bone! But now, with only one paw, he seems to hold it better! Another example of him figuring out a “new way to be”!
Porter went for his first walk on Sunday! Two blocks out and two blocks back. I will freely admit – I love the fact that when he “walks” now, his ears flop! It’s the cutest thing ever. I would never have sacrificed a leg for that, but since it’s gone, it’s a nice cute perk. He was a little tired afterwards, and laid down immediately afterwards, but I think that was mostly endurance. But he loved the whole thing! He was so excited, and pretty much ran the entire thing.
He also did his first full flight of stairs, at my best friend’s house. I know “down” is worse than “up”, and unfortunately he had to go down first. I stood in front of him because I was worried he would slip or fall. But he did great! He aimed each paw on each stair and navigated them perfectly. This was also his first time around other dogs, and he did great with that too. They smelled his incision area briefly, and Porter was fine with it. Then, it was back to usual!
A week of more firsts, all good. I’m really optimistic that things will continue to improve so quickly and that we’ll have no major hurdles. Thanks to all the Tripawds Parents for all your great, positive words of encouragement – it has meant so much to us!
Porter is doing so great! I’m very impressed with the 2 block walk. At 6 weeks Baby is starting to walk a little longer, but she stops to rest several times along the way. You’re right about some of the ‘new normals’ being adorable. The picture with the bone is really cute!
Wags and slobbers
Judy and Baby
Four block walk!! We were so happy too. He just happily bounced his way down the street. I think he was really missing his walls. So happy to get out & a little bit of exercise. Plus some new snow to eat! :-). Thanks Judy!!
It is really amazing that dogs respond so well and heal so fast. It’s still a process that’s not easy but they seem to handle it better ( a lot better ) then we do . Petey still hasn’t gone for his first walk but he is getting up and down four steps really well. He’s still on his meds and has some pain every now and then but he seems to be doing really well for just having surgery 4 days ago. I have to try to slow him down in everything he’s doing
Porter wasn’t allowed to do anything but potty breaks for the first two weeks, but he’d been moving around tons inside. He was so happy to get out & take that official “walk” with the collar & leash (even though he didn’t need them!)
Wonderful to see Porter doing better. What a brave boy.
A bit of snow would go down quite well here at the moment 🙂 Lovely stuff.
Meg and Gandalf
porter, you are AMAZING!!! taking walks, figuring out the ‘one paw’ rawhide, and conquering stairs – very impressive!!! we hope you are still fitting in some ‘medicinal naps’ in such a busy day. keep up the good work!!!!!!!
charon & spirit gayle