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Jelly has been closed up, and is now being kept warm and calm. She is given as much time as she needs to gradually emerge from anesthetic. She is being given fluids via the catheter in her front leg, another method to stave off shock complications from the surgery. She has also been given a morphine based pain killer to help with her discomfort. This pain killer does not pass into her milk, so will not affect her puppies.

The catheter tube which you see will actually remain in place for the first 48 hours after she returns home. This way, if anything happens which might require her to need fluids or an IV, another catheter tube will not need to be inserted. If all goes well, we'll simply carefully remove it at home and apply a clean bandage. Did we mention that French Bulldog breeding is not for the squeamish?