- Joined
- May 1, 2020
- Messages
- 6
- Purraise
- 1
I got my cat spayed 6 days ago, Saturday on 25th May. The vet didn't tell us anything about how we should behave this period when she's healing, so I had all of my research from the Internet. I didn't let her lick her incision, and I tried stopping her from running and jumping around. The only problem was that she is really, really playful! She acts like nothing happened, and she jumps and runs for like 2-3 hours a day, sometimes hurting herself. As I read on the Internet (again, my vet didn't give me any advice) I tried putting her in a room with no high furniture so she wouldn't hurt herself jumping, and she started jumping on the WALLS! She was jumping constantly at 1 meter high if not more! I've also read that I should put her in a cage, so I did, and she tries her best to get own and hurts herself again, so I stopped doing that after the first time. I started playing with her on the ground for 2 hours so she wouldn't start jumping again. The problem is, after she jumped on the walls then, the incision opened a bit. Yesterday we took her to the vet, and the doctor said that it's all ok, and that we shouldn't worry about her jumping, running or licking her wound, and that even if the whole wound is open, we shouldn't worry. I'm trying to trust him, but since I did all of my research from the Internet, those are complete opposites with what the vet said.
This is a photo from yesterday:
So I listened to the vet, I let her jump, run, and lick herself and do whatever she wanted, since that was what a professional vet had said. Not more than 10 hours away, she licked her incision so much that it opened even more! It is even wet, it's a bit red around the wound and it's a bit swollen (but the swallow was there from the first days, and I didn't worry too much about it, but it got bigger). She acts perfectly normal, she's playful and she eats, but I'm still worried and I want to avoid any infections and any other complications because we can't afford much, we hardly afforded the surgery itself.
Here's a photo from today:
This is a photo from yesterday:
So I listened to the vet, I let her jump, run, and lick herself and do whatever she wanted, since that was what a professional vet had said. Not more than 10 hours away, she licked her incision so much that it opened even more! It is even wet, it's a bit red around the wound and it's a bit swollen (but the swallow was there from the first days, and I didn't worry too much about it, but it got bigger). She acts perfectly normal, she's playful and she eats, but I'm still worried and I want to avoid any infections and any other complications because we can't afford much, we hardly afforded the surgery itself.
Here's a photo from today: