Spaying...what was your vet's advice?

What does your vet recommend after spaying? My former vet (only former because I moved) spayed 2 of my cats, and told me to keep them as still as I could, try to keep them from jumping, but cats know what they are able to do. I had to keep an eye on their incision but didn't have to take them back to get stitches out because they dissolved. My new vet recommends to keep them caged for 10 days. He spayed 2 of my new cats (had to give my other cats away before I moved) and we didn't cage them but they were fine after a few days. We did have to take them back to get the stitches out. I'm worried because we now have an appointment to spay our chocolate lab who is 10 months old. If she has to be in a cage for 10 days she will go crazy! And so will I!!

What was your vets advice after spaying?

He says to not let them eat and only give them sips of water. And keep them away from the other animals, dont let them outside.

I was simply told to try to keep her from jumping and don't let her go at her stitches, is all. Caging my baby for 10 days would have been like kitty jail, and she hadn't done anything wrong!

My poor Ginger actually took 3 whole days to recover from the anesthesia (she had had her belly button hernia repaired at the same time, giving her a much larger incision,) so she mostly slept for that time anyway.

Golly, 10 days of caging is NOT necessary! We just got told to try and keep them quiet for a couple of days if possible, and make sure they leave the tissue glue alone. They licked near the glue, but I think they liked their shaved bellies

Originally Posted by GingersMom

I was simply told to try to keep her from jumping and don't let her go at her stitches, is all. Caging my baby for 10 days would have been like kitty jail, and she hadn't done anything wrong!

My poor Ginger actually took 3 whole days to recover from the anesthesia (she had had her belly button hernia repaired at the same time, giving her a much larger incision,) so she mostly slept for that time anyway.

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Kitty jail...that's what I thought too! I couldn't do that to my babies. My MIL did it, but that was when she had a barn cat spayed and she COULDN'T put her back out until her stitches were out. She had never been inside before and didn't trust her around the indoor cats. She was a VERY unhappy cat, but is much healthier now.

Why do some vets use stitches that dissolve and some use the kind that need to be removed? Any idea what the difference is? Seems like having to removed the stitches is pretty old fashioned since they use the dissolving kind on humans.

I've never had a female cat of my own spayed, I've always had males.

But for the rescue we don't ever get any special instructions. They usually go into a smaller room for a couple days, then back into the main centre with everyone else. (no one is caged)

We also use the dissolvable stitches so they don't have to go back in 10 days.

When we had Reeses spayed, we were just told to first off, make sure that she didn't lick it excessively. She did a bit during her cleaning routine but not because it was bothering her. If we saw her licking at it a little longer than she should, we'd tell her to knock it off (alot of good that did ) They also just said to make sure she minimizes jumping off of things and really being active. They did mention that if he had to, locking her in a room for a week with all her stuff. But we decided not to do that because there are things in all the rooms that she could jump off of as if she had full run of the house, so alot of good that would do.

I had questions about all of it, and basically they said that they incision is stuck together well, and she'd really have to be rough in order for it to open up, and to not worry. The pain she was in slowed her down enough to where she didn't get out of hand, and if she did, we just didn't give her pain medication for that day.