[help] Maneuver dog to eliminate after double FHO?

health/illness-related

My dog got double Fho surgery. I just picked her up from the vet and she got carried into the car by someone for me.

I carried her home and could drop her nowhere but my bed. I tried putting her on the floor first but she just stood with my sling help and couldn’t settle.

Now she’s on my bed and I really don’t know what to do. She squeals everytime I try to get close to her/move her. She doesn’t understand that she needs to wait for sling support before propping herself up and panics and tries to get away from me.

I am on the second floor and carrying her downstairs to eliminate seems impossible. I had bought the sling to see if she would do it outside on my patio but couldn’t train her in time to use the patio potty correctly. When I tried to train her she held her pee for 24h until I took her downstairs.

I also had bought her wee weee pads for that reason (to see if she would pee on those on the patio to no avail).

What should I do to minimize her pain? Should I line her crate with pads and don’t move her at all? I wouldn’t know how to clean up after her then either. She would get so spooked she’d try to move and would be in pain anyway. I also can’t leave her laying in her own pee…

Do I help her onto the patio and risk her just standing there and it have been for nothing?

Do I need to carry her down every time? She doesn’t look like she would even want to pee :/ she seems in so much pain.

Posted Jun 3, 2026, 1:46 AM UTC

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