Yes it was horrible when we finally got her out from under her bed in her room we saw her belly looking like that so I felt horrible... she hid from the fire company and water company people then kept hiding and we figured since she had a cone she would be fine... but no she literally was folding her whole self in half like a lawn chair.Sometimes they will make a long incision if they can’t find the ovaries, or if the cat is pregnant, or has an infected uterus. They don’t like doing big incisions like that because it take so long to close.
That picture is definitely what you don’t want an incision to look like. She did a number on that. I am glad she is ok now.
Nobody is judging anyone here. Everyone that is on this site obviously cares deeply for their cats, or they wouldn’t be here looking for information.
The worst part about that day is we'll for starters her licking the heck out of it... 2nd we were going to leave because the chemical smell was nauseating.. if we would have we would have came back to a burned down house...
We were lucky enough to hear the zap pop noise and get to the breaker in time with no fire even starting
But with Gabby we took her back to see the vet a couple times. The first time was 1 day after this picture and she was given an antibiotic shot and a longer cone
Then about 14 days later we went back again and got oral antibiotics but that gave her really bad diarrhea so we talked to the vet he said he wouldn't recommend stopping the antibiotics (because when given antibiotics you should always finish them) but it was healing fine and it didn't look linfected.. so we stopped the oral antibiotics but this was day 19 and she was pretty much completely healed
I was relieved the 1st time back to the vet that all her internal sutures were still fine and was thankful for the longer cone and antibiotic shot. They were wonderful there and they didn't charge me for the 2 last minute appointments that they squeezed her in.