It’s a good thing Sasha doesn’t read the blog, because she’d probably disown me after reading this one… After her operations yesterday, I picked Sasha up at about 5:30 after work. They bring her out, and she’s got this big cone on her head! I knew she would have it, but knowing it and seeing it are two different things! I couldn’t help but laugh a little (And feel a little bad for laughing) when she came out. She was pretty miserable afterwards… She would just sit there with her head hung low… She probably thought she was being punished!

I took her outside, and the first order of business was getting her into the car. Although paper thin, the cone takes up a surprising amount of volume. I showed her the kennel in the back seat, opened the door, and said “Get in your house!”… She looked at me like I was stupid or something, as if to say “Do you not see this frickin’ cone on my head? I barely fit in there without it, what makes you think this thing makes me any smaller?”

I took her around to the other side, and let her in on the front passenger seat. She calmly sat down on the seat (A bit muddy, but I could clean that up…) and waited patiently for me to get in. The drive home was uneventful… She sat there calmly while I rubbed her ears… After a while she started drooling on the seat… That’s normal for her though. She gets a little carsick normally, never mind when she’s had surgery.

Upon getting her home, she was more attentive, but wouldn’t eat much… And with the new contraption on her head, she tended to try to go through spaces she no longer fit… Outside, running across the snow, she would look down to “inspect” something, and drag the cone on the ground filling it with snow. Inside, walking down the hallway, she would run into the wall… then get caught on the dehumidifier, then stuck on the doorframe… Eating was a whole new thing for her… She’d lower her head over the bowl, so the cone was touching the floor all the way around… I couldn’t help but think of some weird alien movie where the cone lowers down and sucks up the scrambling humans into the UFO… Freaky…

So far she’s doing well though, and should make a full recovery in no time!

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