We went to the vet today and Bella got her staples out. As soon as she realized where we were going, she was not a happy girl! We weighed her as soon as we got there, and she has lost 3 pounds since her annual exam from a month ago. That's great! Especially since she has lost a pound since her surgery, and that's with no exercise at all. We have stopped giving her scraps of any kind, and she just gets her food and chicken breast now. But since we're out of frozen chicken breast nuggets (just chicken, no breading) she's going to be stuck with just eating kibble. Someone I work with went through this with his lab, and they said they got their dog's weight down with a green been diet, so I stocked up today. She had a few, but I'm not sure if she's a big fan. There were a lot left in her bowl.
Getting the staples out was much less traumatic than I thought it would be... they came out so easily! After she got them out, the doctor showed us an exercise to do with Bella where we basically make her lie on her side, then we stretch her leg out, then bend it in as far as we can. We're supposed to do 10 repetitions of 10 every day, so 100 total. I tried it when we got home, and Bella let me do 7 repetitions, and she decided that was enough. I guess we have a long way to go to work our way up to 100...
The doctor thought she was doing great though. By this time, they want their patients to be at least toe touching, and Bella was using her leg when we were at the vet. So that's good that she's using it. She seems to still hop around home though. I think she just wanted to get out of the vet's office the fastest way possible, and hopping on three legs is not fast!
She's getting pretty tired of being trapped in the living room, as you can see :)
Here's a video I just shot, where Bella shows the camera where her bum leg is ... sorry part of it is sideways!
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