I took Jackie in for her spay yesterday...picked her up at the end of the day. This is the first time I have ever taken a cat home the same day as a spay and rather than being groggy she is high as a kite. She had her e-collar off even before we left the vets office, while still in her travel kennel, despite them having tied it up further with gauze. Tried to put it on again at home, got it on, and she had it off within seconds even with only a finger gap (and almost fell down some stairs in the process). I am keeping it off and just watching her...she had laser surgery, internal dissolvable sutures and glue and has left the incision site alone so far. I have never had a collar on a cat after a spay and she seems far more stressed and active with it on than off and I cannot sit there 24 hours a day putting it on everytime she wrestles out!
Her pupils are huge and she is alert to every little noise. Kind of acting like she is seeing things or at least seeing things very intensely. She had started going into another heat cycle too right before her surgery (poor thing, I was trying to avoid another one for her as I feel so bad for her) so she is aggressively headbutting and rubbing herself against us and last night and this morning my head and ponytail were fascinating to her....I thought she was going to do that in-heat roll thing on my head! Purring like mad if you so much as look at her. It is like she took a combo of magic mushrooms and ecstasy. She is always affectionate, but now she is like super-intense affectionate!
I don't know what to think! How do you keep a high cat calm? We turned off all the lights, kept noise down, and she was still behaving like a nutter! She won't sit still and is walking all over the place. It is no use to keep her in one room. She will fight the door to get out!
Not really eating which is hardly a surprise though had a few bites and nibbles. I just keep putting out some fresh wet food and every few hours as usual and toss the untouched stuff. She used the litterbox as soon as we got home. Hopefully she comes back to eating today.
Anyway, they gave me meds to take home and until I got home I did not see it was oral Metacam (3 doses, 1x a day). I am in Canada so the vets here seem to still like Metacam. I will call vet office when they open, but I assume they gave her an injection of it too. This is the first time I have ever been given pain meds after a spay for home use and I was not expecting it. I am very leery of the Metacam. Jackie is almost 3, but new to us, and I do not know her history. She came to us with ear mites (still trying to deal with those) and some conjunctivitis, possibly feline herpes, but is otherwise healthy, happy, a great weight but she is quite small (even smaller without her bits anymore...she has had multiple litters and had a tiny belly from it) and I do not want to stress her kidneys.
I do not want her to be in pain, and feel up to eating and drinking, but then again I also do not want her to be numb to all pain as we are having a hard time keeping her still! Do I ask for other meds? Or just see how she does today and tomorrow as her surgery meds wear off? Like I said, I have never given pain meds after a spay before, but usually before I went to low cost clinics. This time I went to her vet and had the laser surgery, IVs, etc. Much pricier but I am a much more worried pet parent as I got older myself and have needed my own surgeries!
Her pupils are huge and she is alert to every little noise. Kind of acting like she is seeing things or at least seeing things very intensely. She had started going into another heat cycle too right before her surgery (poor thing, I was trying to avoid another one for her as I feel so bad for her) so she is aggressively headbutting and rubbing herself against us and last night and this morning my head and ponytail were fascinating to her....I thought she was going to do that in-heat roll thing on my head! Purring like mad if you so much as look at her. It is like she took a combo of magic mushrooms and ecstasy. She is always affectionate, but now she is like super-intense affectionate!
I don't know what to think! How do you keep a high cat calm? We turned off all the lights, kept noise down, and she was still behaving like a nutter! She won't sit still and is walking all over the place. It is no use to keep her in one room. She will fight the door to get out!
Not really eating which is hardly a surprise though had a few bites and nibbles. I just keep putting out some fresh wet food and every few hours as usual and toss the untouched stuff. She used the litterbox as soon as we got home. Hopefully she comes back to eating today.
Anyway, they gave me meds to take home and until I got home I did not see it was oral Metacam (3 doses, 1x a day). I am in Canada so the vets here seem to still like Metacam. I will call vet office when they open, but I assume they gave her an injection of it too. This is the first time I have ever been given pain meds after a spay for home use and I was not expecting it. I am very leery of the Metacam. Jackie is almost 3, but new to us, and I do not know her history. She came to us with ear mites (still trying to deal with those) and some conjunctivitis, possibly feline herpes, but is otherwise healthy, happy, a great weight but she is quite small (even smaller without her bits anymore...she has had multiple litters and had a tiny belly from it) and I do not want to stress her kidneys.
I do not want her to be in pain, and feel up to eating and drinking, but then again I also do not want her to be numb to all pain as we are having a hard time keeping her still! Do I ask for other meds? Or just see how she does today and tomorrow as her surgery meds wear off? Like I said, I have never given pain meds after a spay before, but usually before I went to low cost clinics. This time I went to her vet and had the laser surgery, IVs, etc. Much pricier but I am a much more worried pet parent as I got older myself and have needed my own surgeries!
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