Creative Kimpire: Sansa: The Cone Head

My poor baby is a cone head for the next two weeks 😭😭😭. We had a crazy day on Friday and I still don’t even know what happened for sure. I let the girls out to pee while I was busy putting laundry away. They came back in and Sansa went and laid on the couch and Sophie was just being Sophie, looking for a toy or something to terrorize. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until I walked into the kitchen and saw a trail of blood from the back door to the living room. I asked which one of them was bleeding but they didn’t offer me any help so I went to investigate and found a horrible gash on Sansa’s leg. Philip is working from home now so I texted him to come look at it and we agreed she needed to go to the vet right away for stitches. I called and they told me to bring her right up. She didn’t come tell me she was hurt, she jumped onto the couch (onto a blanket, thankfully) and off the couch when I told her we were going “bye byes,” jumped into my Jeep and then out again at the vet’s office. She wasn’t happy about the tech taking her into the back without me but I could hear her tail thumping while they were stitching her up. I asked if I could go ahead and pay before she came out because it’s easier without trying to wrangle a dog and while I was doing that, they brought her out without me knowing and she rammed right into my leg with her cone 😂😂. They told me she would play the pity game and pretend she can’t eat with it but yes, she can. Boy did she ever. When we got home, she bumped her way up the stairs inside and immediately sat by the door, I think waiting for me to “undress” her like we do after a walk. She stayed like that for 2 1/2 hours. I left for a while and she finally moved from the door when I came home. She bumped her way into the living room and onto the couch. She eventually moved to her bed later that night and then into ours. She wiggles so much when she walks it’s no wonder she runs into everything. I took her out several times on the leash so I knew if she pottied and she didn’t pee for the first 24 hours. I seriously wonder how connected a dog’s nose and their urge to pee is. She tried to sniff different spots but couldn’t quite get the cone in the right place and I wondered if that’s why she couldn’t go. She’s very selective about where she poops and pees. It’s an honor, really, if she decides to go in a certain spot 🤷🏻‍♀️👸🏻. She’s on an antibiotic and pain medicine, which makes her a little sleepy, which is good. The only problem is that Sophie is not on a pain medicine that makes her a little sleepy and she is still full speed. She tried tearing the cone off of Sansa’s head. She still picks at her and bites her legs, luckily not the hurt one. Not yet, anyway. She likes to ‘visit’ her in her cone😃. When I first brought Sansa home from the vet and let Soph out of her crate, she came into the kitchen and BARKED at Sansa because she was scared of her cone head. It was pretty hilarious actually. Sansa didn’t think so. They’re both adapting now though. Soph is leaving her alone a *little* bit more than normal and Sansa has started growling at her to tell her to piss off. She tries to play a little but one of us has to supervise because I don’t want to risk Soph biting her staples/stitches and making them bleed.

****WARNING**** graphic pic ahead!

Before 🤮🤮🤮

After

One good thing about the cone is it’s an excellent umbrella. It was raining Friday night and Sansa didn’t get her head wet when we went outside to attempt to pee. It is also a Sophie shield when she’s eating so she can’t come and try to butt Sansa away from the food. She has started eating but not very much. She’ll eat anything you hand her but she’s not real keen on the idea of doing it herself. I would be concerned except for the fact that she has plenty of fat stores to last her for a while 😂. One not so great thing about it is it needs cleaned several times a day. She drools at the thought of cheese so if she even hears the cheese drawer open she starts salivating, which pools down her neck. I also dislike that she can’t scratch her ears so I do it for her if I notice her try. Anyway, it’s going to be a long two weeks for us but I know that’s it’s best she wears it. I won’t lie, I really wanted to take it off of her the first night when she wouldn’t eat dinner. However, I knew if I took it off, putting it back on was going to be a major problem. She’s a licker so I know she would instantly be messing with her wound, the exact reason the cone needs to stay on. She’s in good spirits though and only running into things about 50% of what she was so that’s a start! 🙂

Soph visiting Sansa in her cone ❤️

Cones don’t stop tug-o-war!

We did some Christmas shopping today and when we got home Sansa was the most excited I have ever seen her be in her life. No kidding. She was wiggling so hard and walked back and forth between us to greet us each several times, for several minutes. She tried to convince us to take her for a walk (she has a signal that she does with her nose and then goes to stand by the counter where we keep her walking “clothes” and treat bag) but we didn’t think she should go just yet. Her wound looks really good and seems to be healing well but we want her to stay off her leg as much as possible for these first few days at least. She and Soph played a bit and then we all played hide and seek. She crashed so hard into the doorway in the bathroom looking for one of us that her cone is now dented. This is day 3. I can’t imagine what it will look like at the end of two weeks 😳.

While we were out we ate at Olive Garden. I was starving so the food was delicious but it’s always good. We ordered chicken Alfredo and the lasagna. I have a question. Are these two meals gendered? Can you guess which one each of us ordered from these two options? I ask because the food runner brought them out to us and very surely started to place the chicken Alfredo in front of me and said, “chicken Alfredo for you,” and I said, “that’s his,” and she said, “ok then, just kidding, it’s for you,” and gave it to Philip. Why did she assume that was mine? I like both dishes. I order the Alfredo often but I also love their lasagna. I want to know if lasagna is considered a “man’s meal.” If so, that’s ridiculous. But I need to know. Tell me your opinion in the comments. 👦 👧

I went to my friend, Chris’s, wine tasting party last night. That was a first for me and while I didn’t care for most of the wines (dry wine is gross. You can either agree or be wrong), I had a great time with great friends. The hostess taught us how to pair certain foods with specific wines. She wanted to show us how aerating wine makes it taste different but I hadn’t finished the unaerated sample when she came to pour me more and she told me to finish it. For those of you who know what my face looks like when I feel, well, any emotion really, I can’t imagine it was a good reaction. My step sister offered to finish it for me because she’s the best. I’m sure there are wine connoisseurs out there that think aerating wine changes the taste but cough syrup flavored wine just doesn’t get any better, aerated or not. #sorrynotsorry

Anyway, with all this excitement and a literature review that I keep thinking about but really am just procrastinating doing, I didn’t get much else done this week. Keep your fingers crossed for me that next week will be less eventful, or at least have less emergency visits 😉. Here are a few more pics of my goofs to send you away with.