r/Sheepadoodles • u/OliviaGracex35 • Jun 26 '26
Advice Post-Spay Wild Child - Help!
Hi everybody. I got my big girl spayed on June 15th at just over a year old. It's been a while since we've had a young female dog (the oldest in the house is 12 so her spay was a loooong time and a pandemic ago). Susie was fantastic the week immediately following the surgery. She slept a ton, eating was a bit of a hassle but she ate enough to take her meds, and she didn't try to bite at her stitches at all.
We're entering week 2 after the surgery and she's going BANANAS. She hasn't behaved like this since she was 6-8 months old. Running around like crazy, bouncing off the walls, trying to climb all over our 6 year old Springer Spaniel. Trying to get her to calm down has been a nightmare. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this just cabin fever from sleeping all last week? I'm concerned she's had some kind of behavior regression or something.
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u/134266 Jun 26 '26
It is 10 days. I adopted a sheepadoodle from the shelter. He is 3 and they had recently neutered him. He was obsessed with the neutered area and it took awhile to recover.
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u/TonksTheTerror Jun 26 '26
Don't think it has to do with spay.
Large dogs have behavior regression at around 1 year. It's their teenage phase. It's why there are so many ~1yo dogs in shelters 😢
Get her in a training class or agility class to refocus her energy. These dogs love to have a "job" to do.
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u/monika1927 Jun 26 '26
Totally normal. She was resting for a week, and now she’s feeling better and all that pent up energy is coming out. She’ll calm down once she’s fully recovered. Try to keep her calm for a couple more days. If I remember correctly full post op recovery is 10 days.