Feat of technology and feat of tripawdism

I’m still getting the hang of this whole blogging thing – and just discovered the reply function! But in any case, thanks to all of you for your support and well wishes throughout this process. It’s definitely made things much easier knowing that others have made it through similarly tough times.

Toby continues to astound us with his rebound. He has mastered the spiral staircase in both directions. I think the temptation to chase Timmy was just too great and Mom is definitely too slow when it comes to carrying him down the stairs, so he figured it out on his own. Toby’s squirrel drive is also intact – or possibly stronger than before! I wish the other neighborhood dogs would pick up some of the slack since Toby’s radius has been a little more limited in the past 3 weeks! On our walks, he continues to bound forward with a lot of energy. It does make me nervous when he’s walking forward while looking off to the side somewhere else.

At this point, the biggest post-op issue we have is the licking – he has a little bump of skin at the end of his incision. Overall, everything is healing beautifully, but he likes to lick at it so he wears a shirt except at night when he’s supervised. Hopefully even that will fade away.

Finally, the ramp is just about done – it’s gigantic. I think it’ll have to serve as a nightstand and ramp… we’ll see how this goes!