Hey y’all. My 6 month old black lab puppy was viciously attacked on our walk yesterday by 3 dogs that escaped out of the front door behind the little girl that lives there. After 7 excruciating hours at the ER vet, he’s home with us and healing. His prognosis is good but due to all the punctures on his body he needs a cone.
He also is crate trained and only wants to sleep there. I tried to make a den environment outside of his crate so he had more room in it with the cone but he just kept going back to his crate. We have an extra large dog crate so I don’t think we could size up, it’s just not meant to comfortably house a cone. He does seem to settle once we can get him laid down in a good position but repositioning is tricky for him in the middle of the night. Luckily he seems to be managing sleep well with all the meds he’s on but I guess I just want some advice? Words of wisdom? He won’t be in the cone forever so maybe it’s a “this too shall pass” kinda thing and we just make it work? Anyway thanks for reading my novel. Any and all advice is welcome.
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