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Hello! My two 5 month old kittens (sisters) Arwen and Éowyn were spayed April 5, and it's been nothing but chaos since then, trying to keep them from getting to their incisions, making various bodysuits in hopes they won't wriggle out, etc. But I won't go in to all that 
I wanted to see if anyone could give advice or input on the two things I'm dealing with; but I want to preface that I *am* going to call my vet as soon as I get home from work.
So first, I'll start with Éowyn. Vet's orders were to confine for 10 days. On April 8 or 9th (day 4 and 5) she started getting aggressive after a few minutes of holding/petting. She would bare her teeth, sometimes try to bite, and she would scratch. This morning though (April 11) she clawed me so aggressively that I couldn't even check her incision (which I was trying to do). I had to quickly put her back in her cage and then wash all the blood off my hand. This is not her usual self and I'm very worried. Both kittens are normally sweet and gentle. I don't know if she's in pain, and this is her way of venting it? Or if it's her hormones trying to balance out (she was in heat at the time of her surgery)? Or stress/anxiety about being in a cage (although she's been in one before, just not this long; it is a large cage too)? Or just that she's ready to go back outside and kill rodents? I'd be so sad if this is her new personality. She seemed to be doing fine healing up to that point. Eating, sleeping, drinking water, and peeing/pooping normally. I'm a bit scared but hopefully the vet can figure out what's going on
Next is Arwen (who is also eating, sleeping, drinking water, and peeing/pooping normally). These last 7 days have been so exhausting for me that I didn't think of taking daily pictures of the incisions to monitor the healing until last night. So I really can't remember what it looked like day 2-5. But here are pictures of April 10 and 11 (Day 6 and 7).
April 10 (10 pm last night)
April 11 (9:40 am, this morning)
As you can see the skin around it has less hair, and there are some shiny spots (dry, it's not wet) around the incision.
So I'm not sure if these are normal or not. It's not hot to the touch, or bleeding, or smelly, or wet. And other than the dry shiny patches, there is no discharge. Unless it's just thin dried discharge
I don't know!
The problem is that Arwen keeps getting out of her jacket. I gave her frontline night of April 10, and put a soft cone onto her breakaway collar. In the morning, she had wriggled out of her cage, her cone, her collar, and her jacket. The cage was my fault, since I didn't think she would push the wood blocks on the roof away from the gap between the bin with litter box and the cage adjoined to it. She also knocked over her water. She was in the shed so she couldn't get outside, but I don't know a) how long she was out of the cage and collar, cone, jacket; b) if she licked herself or jumped/ran to open incision; and c) how long ago her water got knocked over, and of she/her incision/the frontline area got wet. She was completely dry, so I'm hoping that it had happened recently and that she had remained dry. But I don't know.
Again,
I'm going to call the vet asap, but wanted to see if anyone had input or advice. Thank you in advance!
I wanted to see if anyone could give advice or input on the two things I'm dealing with; but I want to preface that I *am* going to call my vet as soon as I get home from work.
So first, I'll start with Éowyn. Vet's orders were to confine for 10 days. On April 8 or 9th (day 4 and 5) she started getting aggressive after a few minutes of holding/petting. She would bare her teeth, sometimes try to bite, and she would scratch. This morning though (April 11) she clawed me so aggressively that I couldn't even check her incision (which I was trying to do). I had to quickly put her back in her cage and then wash all the blood off my hand. This is not her usual self and I'm very worried. Both kittens are normally sweet and gentle. I don't know if she's in pain, and this is her way of venting it? Or if it's her hormones trying to balance out (she was in heat at the time of her surgery)? Or stress/anxiety about being in a cage (although she's been in one before, just not this long; it is a large cage too)? Or just that she's ready to go back outside and kill rodents? I'd be so sad if this is her new personality. She seemed to be doing fine healing up to that point. Eating, sleeping, drinking water, and peeing/pooping normally. I'm a bit scared but hopefully the vet can figure out what's going on
Next is Arwen (who is also eating, sleeping, drinking water, and peeing/pooping normally). These last 7 days have been so exhausting for me that I didn't think of taking daily pictures of the incisions to monitor the healing until last night. So I really can't remember what it looked like day 2-5. But here are pictures of April 10 and 11 (Day 6 and 7).
April 10 (10 pm last night)
April 11 (9:40 am, this morning)
As you can see the skin around it has less hair, and there are some shiny spots (dry, it's not wet) around the incision.
So I'm not sure if these are normal or not. It's not hot to the touch, or bleeding, or smelly, or wet. And other than the dry shiny patches, there is no discharge. Unless it's just thin dried discharge
I don't know!The problem is that Arwen keeps getting out of her jacket. I gave her frontline night of April 10, and put a soft cone onto her breakaway collar. In the morning, she had wriggled out of her cage, her cone, her collar, and her jacket. The cage was my fault, since I didn't think she would push the wood blocks on the roof away from the gap between the bin with litter box and the cage adjoined to it. She also knocked over her water. She was in the shed so she couldn't get outside, but I don't know a) how long she was out of the cage and collar, cone, jacket; b) if she licked herself or jumped/ran to open incision; and c) how long ago her water got knocked over, and of she/her incision/the frontline area got wet. She was completely dry, so I'm hoping that it had happened recently and that she had remained dry. But I don't know.
Again,
I'm going to call the vet asap, but wanted to see if anyone had input or advice. Thank you in advance!
hopefully they get back to me soon.
I don't have treats, so I'll have to see if she'll take it directly. Thanks for the articles!
); and they are now back in the great outdoors. I can tell that they are so happy now 🥹
