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Hi all.  We are 3 days post neutering for Pippin.  Surgery and recovery went really well, and the site is healing perfectly.  Pippin is wearing his cone (not happy about it, but not complaining either).  The problem is he is getting bored!  We've been instructed to keep the cone on 10-14 days and restrict activity to on leash walking for at least a week.  He's having trouble with most toys because of the collar.  Same problem with kongs.  He can manage the bully stick, but we've found that if we let him chew on it in excess (and he'd love to chew on a bully all day if we let him!) he ends up with quite loose stools.  So, 2 questions.  First:  any ideas to help occupy a bored pup?  Second:  how long did you keep the collar on and restrict activity for?  (just so you know, we lasted 8 days for the collar and 10 days activity restriction with Sam  :)
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Thanks everyone for the input.  We ended up taking the cone off for periods of time in the day when Pippin was well supervised, as he really wanted to lick.  Mostly personal hygiene, but then he would start picking at his stitches.  Post op day 8 today, and the stitches have dissolved, so he went without the cone all day, with just "post business" clean up duties.  Itchiness from the stitches seems to be resolved for him.  Activity restriction went out the window this evening.  My son was watering the garden (just with the hose), Pippin got outside and had a HUGE zoomie.  So funny to watch.  All the pent up energy from the past few days is now spent, and he is fast asleep.  We'll try to keep the activity restriction going for several more days,  but, I think the cone is history!  Good thing too, because summer finally, finally arrived in Vancouver.  Yippee!  Can't wait to be able to go to the beach again with our doodle!

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