So I've already left a message the vet tech from Gerry's shelter, but in case anyone with expertise (or even just experience) can get back to me here first – is one staple coming out a concern? I can't even tell where it came out from (possibly the very top). I've been watching him pretty closely, avoiding putting on the e-collar (since they didn't even have it on him at the vet), but I was in a different room and heard him let out a yelp (thought we had some phantom limb pain starting up). I noticed on the floor when I went to check on him though that there was a staple there (a couple feet from where he was laying, which seems a little odd, but it looks like one of his staples and I rarely have occasion to use staples at home).

Okay, so that's probably more than the necessary info for my question, which is, is the loss of one staple a concern? If the incision appears fine?

He has an e-collar on now and isn't making much of a fuss about it at all. I should have just put it on from the start. I imagined the worst when the person at the vet said he didn't handle the e-collar well, so they had left it off so far. I was picturing him using his powers of crate destroying on it.

Ah, yes I have missed these days of being a worried, rambling pawrent. Did anyone actually think I'd be any better the second time around?