He's 14 months old, and talking with the breeder we decided this was an appropriate time to have him neutered.
We picked him up from the vet at 6pm Thursday evening, and he was just an hour and a half out of surgery. He was barely coming out of the anesthetic.
Here he is looking stoned as ever on the vet office floor. I'll have what he's having. Haha
We took him home and as per the vet's instructions, put his cone on. I don't know if he was just too stoned to understand what was happening, or if the cone is really such a terrible thing. We took a video of him and Scott took charge and added some sorrowful music to it.
Photo version of the video in case link doesn't work!
Such a sad case
We took Sherlock upstairs and he spent the rest of the evening chilling in the living room. Whimpering slightly, but mostly just looking stoned.
Taking advantage of our throw pillows!
In the evening, we set up an X-Pen in our bedroom with his big bed in it, and left him in there with his cone on. After a quick snuggle in bed, we sent him to his pen.
Yup... he's spoiled
I had to be up for work at 5:45 Friday morning, but Sherlock kept us up for 3 hours when we went to bed whining. We figured we'd let him "cry it out" but after 3 hours we had had enough. I figured he was upset because of the cone, so I went and took the cone off him. he took this opportunity to LEAP out of the pen and fly onto our bed straight to my pillow where he curled up and closed his eyes. What a stinker. Lo and behold, he slept on our bed with us that first night... And every night since... I swore I'd never be that person. All night we were worried about him licking his wounds, but he's been pretty good.
**When I say he sleeps on our bed every night it's actually a mixture of our bed and his crate. He either sleeps on our pillows right behind our heads or curled up in his crate. The occasional time he'll do the "toller flop" on the foot of our bed. He's so cute he gets away with it from time to time, but if we ever kicked him off he'd be happy in his crate too.**
Here's a good example of Sherlock doing the "toller flop"
David stayed home with Sherlock on Friday, and we were home on the weekend as well. Sherlock spent most of his time Friday relaxing and hobbling around.
We were watching scary TV shows
Typical day with Sherlock.
By Saturday, however, he was READY TO GO! It's hard to keep an energetic dog on lock-down for 3 days! He was bouncing off the walls... literally at times. We decided to spend some time making the cone "fun-time!" We put it on him and filled it with toys.
It was fun for about 5 minutes, until Sherlock decided he'd rather play without the cone, or shut down and protest it.
On Saturday he continued his craziness while we carved pumpkins and had David's parents over. He escaped from the house TWICE and went for a rip around the complex. FREEDOM!! We wrangled him back in, and put him on lock-down again until Sunday. He went for a little on-leash outing to David's parent's for brunch, and then it was home for some R&R.
TMI Moment... Since Sherlock "developed" he hasn't sat like this. When he was little he used to all the time. I guess now that we've removed the "obstruction(s)" he can superman again!
Bonus photos! I saw a trailer for Season 4 of the Sherlock BBC series, and got excited. I remembered we had a scarf and a hat that looks like a Sherlock hat, so Sherlock and I had a photo shoot while David vacuumed. The deck is Sherlock's "safe-zone" when the vacuum is going.
Mysterious Sherlock
Patient Sherlock
Pondering Sherlock
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