Awww, if I were there I would snuggle with him.  And scritch behind his ears.  What a cutie.

Shouldn’t both of those bandages be blue?

Good for Mort (and you).  Isn’t it amazing how fast animals bounce back after surgery?

Noooooo… :(
Poor dog. :(

He is now electorally festive.
Perhaps you could tell people that you two were just really excited for the vice pres. debates this week?

So he’s undecided?

Would ya just wook at dat widdle punim!!!  They recover so quick.  He’ll be running around sooner than he should, I’m sure!  We spend so much money on our dogs, too.  They are our furry kids.

What a face!!!  So glad it went well.

He’s a Lab right? I’ve known a lab at death’s door to still want to go for a walk… she saw a leash and crawled over to it at the vet’s and picked it up, ready to go (the good news is that with care she recovered and is still walking miles with her owner). They’re totally unstoppable!

Great to hear he’s recovering well.

I’m glad for him and you both. |=)

Puppy!  They probably gave him some pretty good drugs that make him forget he’s in pain—pain control for animals has come a really long way in the past 10 years or so.

Out of curiosity, did the doctors tell you to have him walk around a little right away?  I ask because that’s what I had to do when I had my ACL replaced—they had me start putting weight on the leg a couple of hours after surgery so things wouldn’t stiffen up.  So I’m wondering if they give the same advice for animals.

Me 5 minutes ago: more of a cat person.

Me now: Who’s a widdle doggy? Who’s a good widdle doggy? You are. Yes you are!

“Currently, he’s looking at me as if he can’t understand why we’re not on a walk”

The two questions my poodle has of the universe:

1. Why does she have to leave me everyday?

2. Why can’t we ALWAYS be on a walk?

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.  ~Mark Twain, letter to W.D. Howells, 2 April 1899

Here’s wishing handsome Mort a speedy and successful recovery!

Our yellow lab had TPLO surgery back in December - just one leg - and it took about four months before she could run and jump again - but now she’s better than ever.

Mort looks like an absolute sweetheart here. Glad everything went well, and hope his recovery is short!

Dude, Mort looks JUST like our old brown lab who had both of his ACLs replaced back in the simpler days of the first Clinton Administration.

We lived in a dorm with no elevator.

Motherfucker was heavy.

Hang in there Mort! My chocolate lab Tess would be beside herself if she couldn’t chase squirrels and go for walks. He is very handsome and I’ll think of him while making doggie burgers for rufus and tess this evening. We’ll toast to Mort over cooked beef and wine (the wine is just for the peoples!)

Awww, dogblogging!

Is his name a Terry Pratchett reference?

My dog, Turnip, is a solid Republican.  She particularly likes Rudy Gulliani because he knows which people belong where—she doesn’t like it when the wrong people are in the wrong place (like high school kids out on the sidewalk).  But she’s recently warmed up to Palin because she kills shit like a pro.

Aww! What a handsome lad he is. Walks will be extra fun once you’re fully recovered, Mort! In the meantime, treats and cuddles.

I’m such a sucker for puppydogs. Judging by that picture, Mort looks a lot like a brown version of my black & white Lab/hound mix, Alfie.

Bipartisan dog iz bipartisan!

Heh, I know what Matt is talking about. I’m a cat person. I am NOT a dog person. Except whenever I meet a big sweetie puppy-dog I make such a fuss and pet them and melt away. But the thing is, dogs need a hierarchy and I don’t do hierarchy, so I spend my life trying to negotiate with my cat.

Awww, what a big sweetie!  Get well soon, Mort!

Is his name a Terry Pratchett reference?

“You [want to go for a walk a day after knee surgery]?” he said to Mort, in pretty much the same tone of voice people used when they said to St George, “You killed a what?”

Wishing Mort well!  However, please follow ALL of the vet’s instructions and take the “dogs recover quickly from surgery” comments with a grain of salt.  Not keeping him confined and lying down for the prescribed period of time could derail the work of the surgeries and cause even more damage.  I know it will be SO hard for you to see your buddy wishing he could do his usual romping, but you’ve got to fight the urges to give him some fun and play warden for now.  Dogs DON’T recover from surgery quickly, they just don’t let pain get in their way if they can help it.  Which is great for survival in the wild, but not when they’ve undergone surgery courtesy of the human world.  Good luck to Mort, and to you in the willpower department.

What a sweetie!!  The ears!!!  OMG! Woof woof!!!!

Of course he would like a walk right now! The day after her first ACL surgery, Stella went outside for a tinkle, and, while my lovely ex-wife and I were arguing about whether she should be on a leash, she took off running across the yard and killed a groundhog.  I still say she shoulda been on a leash.  Sure it looked like she could barely walk, but that was false.  She totally has it in for groundhogs.

Oh man oh man—I spent all year in that space—my Owen blew his acl, we fixed it and then the achilles tendon came off on the same leg—that one took months to recover from —he’s on the mend now though and even if he’s probably not going to be a running-the-trails dog, he’s a happy lovey yard dog. Good luck to your Mort—he’s awfully cute—

Congrats. I’m glad it came out well…

I still grieve for my dog that didn’t make it… How something like that can get so deep into your heart…

I’ve been told by my vet that we should watch out for melamine in pet fod again. They’ve seen a ‘large number’ of post surgery animals dying when they were doing otherwise perfectly post surgery. They (and the MSU Vet Clinic) evidently suspect the food as being contaminated, yet again…

Victims of capitalism, and China…

I’m happy and he will be walkies soon…

I’ve purchased more than one state-of-the-art, stainless steel, Swiss-made dog asses for gimpy German Shepherds with crappy hips.

I find THIS little item to be a godsend:

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