Well, we picked her up at 4 and she has been crying and wanting nothing more than to run around the house. We kept her in her carrier for a while, and now she's in a larger (3ftx3ft) dog crate so she has a little room. The trouble is, she keeps licking her incision.

As of right now we don't have an e-collar for her. We tried the one that we needed to use on my small dog a few months ago, but it's still too big. My mother is out right now getting paper plates to make one ourselves, but it won't be until tomorrow that we'll be able to go out and get an appropriate one. Why must she keep licking it?

She's already had a rough enough day, now I have to collar her.