Great news Sam's on the mend. I can understand the difficulty in keeping her on restricted activity but at least she is relatively calm & docile compared to many other dogs........ .....reckon I'd have to put leg braces on Siss, he is just incapable of staying in one place for more than 5 minutes.
Speaking of the good weather, if Sam had to take to the shade it must have been a scorcher.!!!
I notice that on some posts on dog sites people talking about the operation Sam had they mention that they were given sedatives to give the dogs to keep them subdued during the healing time. Maybe not a bad idea, although so far Sam does not seem to have done herself any harm.
it has been sunny enough here for shorts and t shirts but not warm by your standards. A high of 17 degrees I think. Still Sam does get quite warm in the sun and out of the wind. Being mostly black and having a good thick coat is not always a good thing.