emasculated

the dogs came through yesterday's surgeries fine. steve's incision is perhaps 7 or 8 cm long and she was pretty groggy last night. dagmar came home with an enormous elizabethan collar and was obviously very uncomfortable. he was dopey too, but it was unclear if his refusal to walk was due to the aftereffects of his anesthesia or his intense desire to lick his wound. well, i'm sure it was both. he would take a few steps and then collapse, swiveling to lick. kara was worried about them and wanted to leave them out during the night, not put them in their crate. this lasted perhaps 2 or 3 hours after we fell asleep, when dagmar got restless. both dogs needed to pee and he was crawling about the bed and batting us about with his collar, so kara buckled and put them in the crates. last night was the first night they were in separate crates, and with that they did fine, though their grogginess might be a factor there. they have 4 days' worth of pain pills, and that doesn't seem like much to me. dagmar will wear the collar until he doesn't seem to want to lick the spot where his balls once were. steve's stitches come out in 2 weeks, which seems like a long way away. she's signed up for a new class in less than 2 weeks, so we might have to reschedule her with the school. dagmar's sutures are absorbable. he's being really pathetic. last night when we got them home we didn't know whether to laugh or cry at his pathos. poor boy.