Just a quick post today to humiliate show you some pictures of Bodie looking mighty forlorn in his cone, post-neutering.
His first cone was quaint and Easter bonnet-esque, but Stretch Armstrong here was able to still get at his stitches.
He was upgraded to a second, bigger cone (of which I didn’t get a picture). It proved more challenging but ultimately Bodie found a way around it, using the tip of the new cone to rub his stitches.
It was time for a larger cone. The grandaddy cone. The size venti.
DUN DUN DUN.
It’s basically a satellite dish. Bodie kept inadvertently flipping over his water bowl and getting plugged up in door frames, not to mention scaring the living daylights out of Kiva. The cone reached so low to the ground that he’d skim off the top layer of snow in the backyard as he trotted, funneling it inward onto his snout. The poor pooch couldn’t even chew a bone without it slipping down his cone-slide.
Saddest of all, he just wanted some love from his human companions. After all, he’s only 9 months old. What a scary and confusing time for a pup. Bodie likes to get right up in your face, stare at you, and nuzzle your neck, something the cone was preventing…
…until we realized we’d just go inside the cone with our little Bodie until he felt better.
When the cone finally came off about a week later, I had never seen Bodie so gleeful, sprinting laps in the backyard and tackling Kiva.
P.S. Bodie’s ordeal reminded me of my favorite “Far Side” comic of all time.
Awww…
Current pups haven’t had the cone but past pups have…they always seem to bang into walls and just look so sad.
There was a ton of banging into walls with the Bodster. Poor little dude!
Aww, poor little guy!
Thankfully, it’s off, and he is back to normal. He was probably worried that this was his new normal!
Oh my God, that is the biggest cone I’ve ever seen! Poor Bodie, glad he made it through and his back to his usual self sprinting around the yard!
Haha, Meghan, I really think it was the biggest cone available. The poor guy could barely make it through a doorjamb.
aw poor thing, my dog hated her cone too.
I just wish you could explain to your dog why he has it, ya know?
What a little sweetheart! Milo has yet to wear a cone with us (he was neutered before we got him), but I can only imagine how pitiful he would look
Haha, they all look so forlorn! I wish I could explain to him why he has it on.
So glad he’s over the ordeal! xoxoM
Aw, thank you, Margarita! Me too!
Oh my god that is hilarious. You could pick up most DirecTV channels with that thing.
I really think so.
I love this post. I laughed, I awed, and I thought “I JUST WANT TO SQUEEZE BODIE’S SWEET, CONE-COVERED FACE!”
Hahaha, Kate, he would’ve loved a squeeze. He felt so isolated from us!
Oh… the cone… I don’t miss it… Boomer figured out how to ram me in the back of the knees and almost toppled me a few times.
Yes! The ramming of the back of the knees is incredible. I think he gave a few of us bruises.
Poor guy, I hope he wasn’t in it for long.
Awww poor little cutie, I hope it comes off soon!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thank you, Uru! It’s off and he is soooo happy.
Ahhhh that it just so so adorable. I’m having a little internal adorable meltdown.
Hahaha, he WAS pretty pathetically adorable.
Poor Bodie, so glad he is finally free of the cone. My legs are still recovering from the bruises caused by our little boy’s experience with the cone of shame.
I know! The ramming of the legs is something I wasn’t prepared for.
awww, poor Bodie! He looks absolutely adorable though. Charlie’s never had to wear a cone (knock on wood).
Haha he was such a sweet lunkhead with it on.
Oh, poor Bodie! He is so, so sweet. His facial expressions remind me so much of Max.
They are so similar! Bodie is such a sweetie pie. That’s why I felt so bad seeing him with the cone! Thankfully, he’s fine now and the cone is history
Aww – poor guy!
Hehe, thanks, Di. He’s all better.
the ole dog cone head!! its sort of cruel and sort of hilarious at the same time! love it!
Haha, very true — you don’t want to laugh at their misfortune but it’s still pretty funny.
Aw, poor little Bodie! One of our dogs had to wear one of these once and I think he just felt so embarrassed, or maybe I just felt that for him! I love how excited he was when you went into the cone!
Haha, I always think my dogs are acting “embarrassed” — although it might just be anthropomorphizing. Still. I found myself constantly wishing I could explain to Bodie why he was in a cone!