Thunder continues to recuperate.  He returned to the vet today and had his pain patch removed.  He still has pain pills every 12 hours, but no patch.  His food has been increased to 1 cup, but only 2 times a day.  There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with his appetite because he was looking for food at his normal meal times.  However, since we are giving the pain pills, antibiotic, and stomach medication with food, his meals are a bit later than normal.  He had been eating 4 times a day and even though he was only getting 1/2 cup each time, I think he was enjoying meal time rolling around so often.  We can now leave his water out, but will not let him drink a lot at any one time.  At least we no longer have to measure it out and log the times.

He isn’t totally chipper, but he seems less sleepy.  He didn’t really sleep that much today and every time I moved around to do something, I noticed him watching me.  I also think he is more uncomfortable today because he is starting to heal.  He hasn’t been stretched out on his side, but then again he must remain at the ready to spring up and check out each and every sound.  I suppose he wouldn’t want to miss anything. 🙂

He has adapted really well to the cone.  I worked a lot with him the day after he came home to get him used to it.  Initially he didn’t even want to put it on, but now he just slips his head through.  Of course I told him how handsome he looks with it on.  😉  Lucky for him, today I was able to watch him, so he didn’t have to wear it much.  We have decided to get the staples out on the 10th rather than the 14th day because we think he will be more comfortable and maybe he can ditch that cone faster.  We just hope they are ready to come out then.

I did manage to take a picture of him during one of his short naps.  You can see that he has a lot of shaved patches, including his entire underside.

Related articles