Okay, now I am pretty much freaking out. Newton's front right leg has gotten huge. I left a voicemail message for both Dr. Perry and Dr. Culp. Newton's regular vet, Dr. Roberts in on vacation until October 20th, so Mary (my breeder) came over to take a look at his leg. Mary thinks that the leg is more muscle related and probably has to do with the fact that he is having to adjust to this new way of walking.

Mary also took a look at his incision. While she was looking at it, she noticed a couple of staples that were only holding onto one side of the incision. Worried that they might drop into the wound, she removed them. Over the course of the day, I had to remove two more staples. Now there is a huge hole. When I look in the hole, I can see where they sutured him up.

Once again, I left Dr. Perry and Dr. Culp messages. When I hadn't heard from either of them at 4 pm, I called CSU again and asked if I could talk to somebody about what I was seeing since I was quite worried. They tracked Dr. Perry down. I told Dr. Perry what I was seeing and emailed him a picture of the "Y" portion of the incision that was losing the staples. He indicated that in looking at the pictures, he doesn't think that Newton will have trouble healing as long as it stays clean. He also indicated that I could come up to CSU on Friday and have them look at it if it would make me feel better.

You can guess what I decided.