Uberhoust
Fish Herder
My little puppy, actually 50 lbs of energetic Australian Shepherd, was neutered a week and a half ago. As part of the process he needed to get a cone to prevent him from damaging the incision, additionally, I was supposed to keep his activity level down and keep him on a lead at all times. The vet noted that this was an unreasonable expectation for my puppy so she gave me some Trazodone to mellow my dog out so that he could tolerate the cone and mellow my dog down a bit so that the cone is not such a burden on him or us.
At first the pup handled the cone ok, it was never good, but then he started to try and remove the cone by himself, first by pawing it off but then later by trying to break the cone against the furniture, walls, gratings... so we gave him one of the Trazodone sedatives. At first it helped but by the second day of use his behavior started deteriorating greatly, he totally lost is bite inhibition and had a few what I would call psychotic episodes where he could not handle his situation and attacked anything and anyone. I remember having a bad episode with some tranqs myself during a hospital visit so I stopped the medication. His behavior started to improve but by that time the cone was in pieces, we gave up with the cone and just watched him with the incision which thankfully healed up in the first week. He is now a similar pup but with more of tendency to grab your clothing if he doesn't want something.
The whole process has set back his training considerably, but he is now on track again, I was able to start training him to walk with the bike yesterday. Paradoxical aggression can be side effect for Trazodone, I found after researching the drug, this information wasn't shared with us. We won't be using the Trazodone again with this puppy.
3 or 4 day with cone, day before the .... hit the fan. He is asking me to remove the cone.
At first the pup handled the cone ok, it was never good, but then he started to try and remove the cone by himself, first by pawing it off but then later by trying to break the cone against the furniture, walls, gratings... so we gave him one of the Trazodone sedatives. At first it helped but by the second day of use his behavior started deteriorating greatly, he totally lost is bite inhibition and had a few what I would call psychotic episodes where he could not handle his situation and attacked anything and anyone. I remember having a bad episode with some tranqs myself during a hospital visit so I stopped the medication. His behavior started to improve but by that time the cone was in pieces, we gave up with the cone and just watched him with the incision which thankfully healed up in the first week. He is now a similar pup but with more of tendency to grab your clothing if he doesn't want something.
The whole process has set back his training considerably, but he is now on track again, I was able to start training him to walk with the bike yesterday. Paradoxical aggression can be side effect for Trazodone, I found after researching the drug, this information wasn't shared with us. We won't be using the Trazodone again with this puppy.
3 or 4 day with cone, day before the .... hit the fan. He is asking me to remove the cone.
