This weekend, Max:
Was forced to wear a hard plastic “cone of shame” for the next week. Because somehow, he got around the soft plastic cone AND the baby onesie to lick at the surgical incision from his neutering and it still isn’t healed.
Tripped over himself multiple times while on a short walk because the cone kept getting in the way.
Was incredibly entertaining to play fetch with because he kept losing the ball because he couldn’t see around his cone.
Managed to get out of his “cone of shame” within 90 seconds of being put in his kennel.
Was allowed to sleep on the floor of our bedroom every night because he can use the walls of his kennel to get his cone off (see above)
Got very used to sleeping on our floor, so this is going to be a hard habit to break
Jumped over the 2 feet of boxes we stacked to keep him in the laundry room while we were out by knocking over the lightest top box
Pulled down the same box the next time we left even though we put a 20 pound kettlebell in there
Probably almost crushed himself with said kettlebell, so we won’t be trying that method of containment again.
Had to be shut in the bathroom with his bed, food and water since keeping him in the laundry room obviously didn’t work.
Scratched the bottom of the bathroom door to pieces in an effort to get out
So yeah, I won’t be out of the house much this week while he has to wear the cone.
If this doesn’t lend further proof to our theory that he was a circus dog in a former life, I don’t know what would.
On the bright side, we entered a raffle for Relay for Life while we were at the vet on Friday, and for a $5 ticket won $75 worth of flea prevention meds (6 months worth). So there’s that.
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I am crying inside because there is no photo of Max in the post…
janetha @ meals & moves recently posted..dad’s day!
And 80% of the post was missing, too. Not sure what Ecto did to me there, but now the full post + photos are up!
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Thank goodness you let me know! This was much better
Poor fella <3
janetha @ meals & moves recently posted..dad’s day!
Oh poor max. Clifford has one on right now too because of his eye surgery and I hate seeing him walk around all sad.
Oh, poor Max. If he wasn’t a circus dog, perhaps he studied under Houdini
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haha your dog has too much energy for his own good! My dog had to wear a cone for 2.5 weeks and it nearly killed her. Watching her try and find a spot to pee in the yard was hilarious, and sad all at once.
Im telling you, dogs (and babies) are cute for a reason.
oh my gosh! poor little max with that cone.
what a little trickster though! i can’t believe that little guy did all of that!
sarah (sarah learns) recently posted..monday mini’s detox edition
Seriously. Who would have thought an 8 pound dog could accomplish all that?
Ohhhh my goodness, poor little Max! I couldn’t imagine how Happy would handle that… I bet she’d body-slam into walls left and right.
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