They’re home, they’re well and they’re still friends with us!

I called the vets just after 1pm and was delighted to hear that both pups had come through their operations well and were sleeping off the anaesthetic. They could be collected later in the afternoon.

They had been kept in separate kennels, next door to each other and as I walked in to get them I was pleased to see both were awake and pleased to see me. Brandy allowed us to put his harness on but Brinkley just wouldn’t stay still, he wanted a cuddle and after trying to get his harness on for a few minutes we gave up and decided to carry them to the car.

Once home, they had a quick look around and then went looking for food, after all they hadn’t eaten anything for almost 24 hours. They were allowed light snacks for the first day so I gave them some scrambled egg which they demolished in record time, poor mites, they were starving.

After that they went to sleep for another couple of hours. I was surprised how active they were, they would jump up to be picked up, trot through to the kitchen and out onto the decking. Neither pup seemed to have fallen out with us, which was good.

Brinkley had had a reaction to the lotion they use to sterilise the skin so he looked very red underneath, but other than that the operation looked very neat and each pup just looks to have 1 stitch holding a very neat wound together.

My task now is to keep them calm, and try and stop them licking themselves too much. According to the vet’s aftercare notes, I shouldn’t be too surprised if they are relatively inactive for the first 24 hours. After a reasonably good nights sleep both pups seem to be fully recovered from the anaesthetic and certainly no one had told them they should be ‘relatively inactive’. They are wandering around as normal, been out in the garden barking at each other and I had to stop them when they decided they were going to play fight, as normal. Brandy is the one that’s starting it this morning and Brinkley doesn’t look impressed.

So, it looks as if I’m going to have a bit of a task on hand to keep them quiet today!