Day 7 Post-Op - Watch Koda Walk!

This is the scene from my vantage point at the kitchen table - Koda sitting and standing, popping his head in between the gaps in the furniture barricade. He is increasingly antsy, pacing around inside Camp Koda. He can't understand why he doesn't have the run of the house like he used to - before this thing with his leg. I'm not sure how much square footage to give him, as he is growing frustrated by being penned up in such a small enclosure.


Watch Koda walking! Today he is getting around even better, more like a bad limp. He is really using his Bionic Leg to walk now.

The stitches look more healed every day. His fur is growing back and covering the cut and sutures. So happy that the worst part is over.

I went out for a quick run in the neighborhood, so I put on his cone (it seems to make him less agile) and added a few boxes and such to reinforce the more vulnerable parts of the barricade. Koda pushed a few pillows, so I know he is testing the walls to see where he can possibly get out. I think within the next couple of days I will use the baby gates to give him access to the hallway to my office, where I've had to return in order to get some work done.

Just in case—in the off chance that Koda clears the living room barricade—I put up some baby gates in front of the stairs. If he got out, at least he couldn't hurt himself going up and down the stairs (like the maniac he is on stairs). I suppose I'll be putting these up in the next few weeks, when he gets full access to the first floor.

He was a good boy. When I returned from my run, he was just sleeping on the floor in his corral. Yay!