Originally posted by lizbud
Finn looks pretty good for just waking up from surgery.
I'm glad he didn't have any problems. Sorry if you've said this
before, but why does Finn have to stay overnight?
I think I mentioned it somewhere, but, I don't know for sure. Because he's larger and active, he has to stay as inactive as possible for the first night, so, that he doesn't slip a ligature. There's a tube or something that I guess leads to the testicles (which of course are now gone!) and it's tied off inside the dog. And, if they do a lot of moving around, it can slip and they can bleed into the sack, and, she said she'd seen them as big as cantalopes. So, he's staying just as a preventive. If anything goes wrong overnight, he'll at least be right there and can be handled appropriately. He'll stay still better there in the cage than if he was home in his crate. He'd be miserable if he was in his crate and not able to be with us. He's silly, he does fine if he's home completely alone, but, not if we're outside and he's inside or vice versa.