Fanta the Pug and His Very Dramatic Recovery

Fanta is seven months old, a pug with the confidence of a much larger dog, and he had a small operation last month that left him wearing a cone. He took the cone as a personal insult. For the first two days he walked into every doorway in our house in Hua Hin, flopped down dramatically on the tiles and sighed at me as if I had betrayed him. Keeping him calm was harder than the operation itself. We set up a quiet corner, gave him a snuffle mat for slow snacks, and let him nap in a sunbeam. By the end of the week he had decided the cone was a fashion statement, and honestly, it suited him.