Sprite Having a Tough Time

Trying to get comfortable...it didn't work.

Our foster dog Sprite had a tough day on Friday. His stitches from the neutering started "leaking" blood serum, and he began licking it like crazy because it apparently became itchy. I put a tee shirt on him and by 2pm there were a lot of bloom serum stains on it so I (Rob) immediately called the vet!  I brought him in at 5pm and they told me that it was blood serum and that he needs to stop licking it. To ensure that, they needed to put a wrap around him and make him wear a plastic collar. They cleaned him up, wrapped him and he came home. He was miserable. He couldn't walk around and couldn't sleep. We put him in his crate at night and he couldn't get comfortable between the bandage and the plastic collar. He kept us and Dolly and Franklin up all night. By 2:30am I took him upstairs and laid him on a towel next to me on the floor. He kept pacing over and over.  By 6:30am Tom got out of bed downstairs, also unable to sleep.We were all exhausted. Fortunately, we had a VET Appt. at noon for a check up.

Sprite's 1 night bandage

   Tom brought Sprite in and I met him there with Dolly and Franklin. The vet removed the bandage, cleaned him up, and checked him. We also got tranquilizers for little Sprite so he could sleep and not touch the wound. We gave him some at 12:30 pm and by 2:30pm he was finally sleeping. We're hoping the little guy can finally heal now, and we can all get some sleep...