Robert5091 said:
Swedish Molly the doping control dog - can find e.g. testosterone and anabolic steroids. Was busy at the Biathlon World Cup in Sweden this year.
lol... if she could detect all the other stuff there would probably have been no competitors left.
Well, here at last is an update on Toby... I didn't really want to say anything until his sutures were out, today they were removed. At one point he got his donut off when no one was looking, he managed to dislodge a couple of staples and removed one entirely by licking on his wound. Thankfully this was about 5 days after surgery, so he didn't do too much damage.
I still have to do passive range of motion therapy at home with him because he's not using the leg, there was some muscle atrophy even prior to surgery because he wasn't using the leg due to the joint injury. And if I can't get him to use the leg he'll have to see the professionals, thankfully we have a clinic here in town that specializes in such things.
All in all things are looking okay so far - the incision looks good, the vet said Toby can even bathe now. (Thank goodness for that, tomorrow I'll be throwing Toby into the bathtub!) Still no jumping or chasing squirrels though, this is going to take a while.
PS - I don't mind the surgery site too much, but they also shaved a square on Toby's side where they had stapled the fentanyl patch. That's going to look stupid for a while, maybe I should just shave him all over and get it over with.