He already went through his pre-surgery blood tests and exam a month ago when he went in for his rabies vaccination, so he was ready to go. Waldo was brave enough to take him to the MurrayHill clinic at dawn(or so it seemed, what horrible early hours do vets keep anyway!) and pick him up by the end of the day. Fynn, being his happy-go-lucky self went in glad to see familiar faces and being cuddled and ohhh-ed and ahhhh-ed over. ;-) They have seen him there since he was a wee puppy, the smallest of the bunch, at 4 weeks old, they do feel like they know him and they are always happy to see him. Probably also because of large contribution we made for Dr.Michele's down payment on her 3rd vacation home or so ;-) Just kidding of course but prices are steep.
Of course he did fine, only thing he(and I) didn't like was that he came home with one of those old fashioned collars, representing a see-through bucket ;-)
We quickly send his dad to the store to pick up a soft collar and that was a good solution. He slept with it the first night but after that it stayed off. He was such a good boy, didn't lick at it at all and it looked pretty good.
He came home with instructions that said, wear collar for 10 days(ha ha), no running, springing or jumping, keep quiet etc(hahahaha) People who wrote that never had a Border Collie probably, try to keep a BC quiet with no play and a no running and you got a severe case of kennel-stress and BC depression on your hands.
In all my rescue years and neuter and spaying BC's I never kept a dog kenneled and quiet for longer than the day of the surgery. Our Gwen came home after her spay and jumped on the couch to get her frisbee and headed for the door for a play session, after all they had her kenneled for 10 whole hours ;-) next day we played, no high jumps but they need their stimulation, if not physical than surely mental.
Here are some pathetic Fynn pics with his blue floating device aka 'the collar'
I want to go out!
I know!I look pathetic!
No, it's not funny, why are you laughing?
Our big boy recovered quickly and he's back to his old self. Below are some pics from the doggy park. For some reason he loves big and I mean BIG dogs to play with. But thanks to his doggy day care time he has excellent doggy manners and knows how to read doggy body language pretty good. We're so proud of him!
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