Good News!

I have good news to report. Yesterday I let Suki out of her cage to roam around my apartment. Since I was home all day, I thought I could just monitor her and prevent her from jumping up on anything. Well, she loved it. So now I am letting her roam around outside her cage while I am there. But the good news is that I took her cone off her head. I was going to test it out to see if she would start to bother her scabs and incision area. The doctor said that I could take it off yesterday but I thought she would need it on longer. Well, right when I took the cone off she began to bathe her entire body from head to toe. She hadn't been able to do that in 2 weeks! When she got to the area where I removed her pain patch, she licked it feverishly and bit a little bit at the scabs. I realized she was just cleaning the area and it was okay. When she got to her incision area, she cleaned it and bit off a piece of the scab there as well. But it was okay. It really made me feel nauseous when I saw her do that. But everything is fine. She cleaned the rest of her body and now she is fine. She is not hurting herself at all. So she is cone free!!! Woo hoo!! :) She is one step closer to being normal again.

Right now she is sleeping next to me. When I leave or go to sleep, I put her back in her cage. This Friday she can be 100% cage free (per doctor's orders). I think I might up that to maybe Thursday. :) She seems to be fine and much happier outside the cage.