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As you know by now Bogie has has two surgeries, one in June and one 15 days ago, because he swallowed a rock that lodged in his intestines. Hopefully his new muzzle will prevent this from happening again and give him some freedom in our yard when we can't be out there watching him.
Bogie is doing quiet well adapting to the muzzle now after a couple of rough few days. I sat in the yard and cried the first time he went out with it on. He rubbed it on the ground, stuck his head in the bushes to try to snag it and pull it off, he pawed at it, drug it on the fence, and finally laid down by the door and stared daggers at me.
Now Bogie has accepted it, and waits by the door for my husband or I to put it on him, and off he happily trots into the yard. He even comes back in now with dirt clinging, pine needles or leaves hanging from the muzzle where he has drug it along the ground as he sniffs. Yesterday we watched him sling his head and bat apples with it, and chase them as they bounced. I guess he has decided there is life with a muzzle.
Bogie is doing quiet well adapting to the muzzle now after a couple of rough few days. I sat in the yard and cried the first time he went out with it on. He rubbed it on the ground, stuck his head in the bushes to try to snag it and pull it off, he pawed at it, drug it on the fence, and finally laid down by the door and stared daggers at me.
Now Bogie has accepted it, and waits by the door for my husband or I to put it on him, and off he happily trots into the yard. He even comes back in now with dirt clinging, pine needles or leaves hanging from the muzzle where he has drug it along the ground as he sniffs. Yesterday we watched him sling his head and bat apples with it, and chase them as they bounced. I guess he has decided there is life with a muzzle.
