Ok, I am one day into Bava's recovery at home, 1 day! I stayed home from work to be with him, and he has been a super good dog all day... Until tonight. He's acting pissy toward the cats for some reason. I take him outside on leash to piddle, he does his business, meanders and then lays down. We've been through this many times before, usually if I can manage to get my hands under him and get him on his feet I can lead him back in. That is unless he pulls a crazy-legs move on me. He rolls on his back kicks his feet, and mouths, I usually take a paw to the face but I can usually man-handle him enough to get him back up and going.
Here's the problem, He's hurt, I can't do that, I can't let him jump around, etc. And usually me getting him up when he is crazy like this he takes as an invitation to be crazy and have the zoomies. I'm trying to be really really careful of that leg he just had surgery on, on Monday. So I sit down in front of him and turn my back to wait him out. I find a stick and act like I am playing with it. 15-20 minutes later he gets up and bounces... Arrrrgh, no. I grab him by his collar, but his disposition seems "stiff" like he could unwind like a spring at any minute and start running circles around me w/ the zoomies, etc... And kinda agressive , it's like he has chosen this time of all times to test boundaries.
I lead him back into his crate and he looks kinda pissed, which is really odd, I don't recall him ever acting pissed. I give him a bully stick which he refuses, thats VERY odd. He has never not wanted a bully stick.
I don't know if this is because he is feeling better, or if it is because he doesn't feel good, or if it is some side effect of some of the medicine he's on. One thing I do know is I can not man-handle my hurt little man right now to get him to do what is good for him.
Any ideas? This is weird. I think this could be a very long 3-4 weeks.