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22 February 2020 - 8:48 am
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Hi! I am new here, so hello and thank you in advance for everyone's help and support! 🙂 My 8 yo golden, Delilah, just had her right front arm amputated on Wednesday (2/19/20), and we brought her home yesterday. She is doing AWESOME - already hopping around well, eating and drinking (like already back to her hilarious habit of just sitting in the pantry in the hope that someone will give her a treat), and she pees. She hasn't pooped yet post-op, but I know that's normal so I'm not concerned yet. My question is this - when is it ok to leave her home alone? And for how long? And what do I do to make sure she doesn't hurt herself or something? Not that I am desperate to leave her obviously, and I work from home so it's generally not going to be a big deal, but just trying to plan ahead for when my significant other and I both need to leave at the same time for something or other. Do I get her a babysitter? It seems like it's going to be super traumatic when I first leave her on her own! Any words of wisdom welcome! Thanks so much, Melinda

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22 February 2020 - 2:16 pm
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Welcome and best wishes for Delilah. Every dog is different. Please consult with your vet and be sure to review the series of posts in the Tripawds News blog all about what to expect.

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22 February 2020 - 4:39 pm
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Hi Melisa, welcome to you and Delilah.

Lets start with a perfect world: someone would be home all the time until the two week mark when the stitches come out (then again in a perfect world there wouldn't be an amp to worry about!). 

Next would be that someone was home all the time for the first week.  By the end of the first week she would be far enough past the surgery that the hospital meds were out of her system and you had her pain meds dialed in. 

Then there is the real world... sometimes you just have to be gone! 

Whenever you leave her you should confine her to a small room without stairs or furniture that she could try and get on.  And be sure she can't get to the incision- that usually means the cone or an alternative.  It's also important to stay on schedule with pain meds.

After she is all healed up you should be able to leave her alone when you need to just like usual. You may still want to confine her so she can't get to stairs or furniture on her own- it depends on how she does with those things.

My current Tripawd is a little Pug-mix who lost a leg to a car accident.  She has access to the entire house when we are gone- which includes furniture, stairs and a dog door to the back yard. Elly has been on three for most of her 5 years.

Karen and the Spirit Pug Girls

Tri-pug Maggie survived a 4.5 year mast cell cancer battle only to be lost to oral melanoma.

1999 to 2010

 

              Maggie's Story                  Amputation and Chemo

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23 February 2020 - 9:00 pm
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Hi Melinda,

We had the same questions. We are 12 days post op and had a little bump in the road with medication. I wondered when we no longer would need the harness, when does he not need help going outside to go potty.  Our rottie has been giving us the signs and getting back to his routine on his own. They will let you know. 🙂

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24 February 2020 - 2:57 pm
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Hi! Hope you guys recover well! I was so worried already before the surgery about this as my Staffy is super emotionally sensitive and always had problems with separation anxiety. I knew this so I organised 2 weeks being with him and another week my boyfriend was with him. He was only alone for a few hours twice in the third week but he was so tired and sleepy still he didnt react much. Once the staples were out and I went back to work I left a small tshirt on him which worked fine. 

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