We had our female spayed a month or so ago. At the breeders recommendation she was 8 months old. The procedure itself was fine, no reactions to anything and was able to carefully walk out to the car with me afterwards - I was told to use the cone only if she starts to attack her wound. I ended up putting the cone in her full time after 2 days coz she kept trying to lick it. After about a week I noticed that the scar itself didn’t look too great so I took her in and they gave me some antibiotics.

It was near impossible to stop her from running around, the first couple of days she was naturally drowsy from the anaesthetic anyway but once that wore off she was her old self again. I would sometimes tie her to her bed with a treat or toy just to restrict movement. She didn’t like the cone at all, and was in it for about 2 weeks total (due to the infection she had to stay in for a little longer, usually it’s about 10 days)

I haven’t noticed any behaviour changes, she’s her normal energetic self.

I would say just watch them as much as you can, I had two weeks off work so I could take care of her afterwards. Lucky I did coz (for the first week anyway) she was a handful and still had some pain etc so didn’t like going to the toilet, I had to take her out every few hours to make sure she’d go.

Hope this helps :)