Apollo Is Doing Well

Apollo had his TPLO surgery last Wednesday, and is doing very well. We brought him home on Thursday afternoon. We are doing our best to keep him very calm, and feel pretty lucky that we are starting out with such a calm dog already. We are letting him roam free around the house while we are home, but he gets locked up in the laundry room while we are away. He is going a little stir crazy being cooped up in the house all the time, but he'll have to wait another 4 weeks before he can leave the house for short walks. Here are some pics of his leg after surgery.

He gets his staples out in 10 more days, and until then he has to wear the dreaded e-collar, or cone-head as we like to call it. He hasn't quite learned the finer points of managing the cone. He runs into everything with it, and then struggles to navigate around things. It's rather funny, but Apollo isn't laughing. Here is a pic when we first put the collar on him, and he was amused by it.

This second picture shows how he feels about it now.

That is not a very happy dog.