Jayda’s elephant training has been put on hold for a couple of weeks – she was spayed last week. Hated doing it, but she’s never going to see 16″ or less and even though she only came in season once a year, I already lost a few weeks of shows because of poor timing, soooo …

Her recovery is going well – she’s being quite the little trouper about spending a lot of time crated or on leash, though as we enter week #2 her patience is starting to wear a little thinner. To keep her from messing with the incision, the vet’s office sent her home with a little stockinette garment. I never saw this before but its a great idea! Kept it dry and protected in the nasty weather we had last weekend and no big, uncomfortable cone to deal with – its just like wearing a sweater. Only problem is as she gets more active the thin material stretches hopelessly out of shape which causes all kinds of problems – we already had to get a 2nd one and I’m not sure if that will last through the weekend so she may end up as a “conehead” yet.

Since she HADN’T been looking at the incision area, she had a few hours of freedom yesterday … then she discovered those kewl little string thingies on her tummy – argh! Back into her little outfit she went!

Her stitches come out Wednesday AM – we can’t wait!!