Post-Spay Wild Child - Help!
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Hi everybody. I got my big girl spayed on June 15th at just over a year old. It's been a while since we've had a young female dog (the oldest in the house is 12 so her spay was a loooong time and a pandemic ago). Susie was fantastic the week immediately following the surgery. She slept a ton, eating was a bit of a hassle but she ate enough to take her meds, and she didn't try to bite at her stitches at all.
We're entering week 2 after the surgery and she's going BANANAS. She hasn't behaved like this since she was 6-8 months old. Running around like crazy, bouncing off the walls, trying to climb all over our 6 year old Springer Spaniel. Trying to get her to calm down has been a nightmare. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this just cabin fever from sleeping all last week? I'm concerned she's had some kind of behavior regression or something.