She couldnt wait for the stitches to come out

Ok this happend like a week ago but i just got to a computer and wanted to share this.

Its was about 5 days after Babi had been fixed, I always checked their tummy's to m ake sure the stitches are holding and nothing is worry such as an ifection or bleeding thats not normal. Well I checked Hampster and her stitches were holding good and nothing was wrong, BUT when I got to babi I freaked.

She descided she would chew her stitching off instead of wait for the vet visit 2 days away. I made sure it was healed up enough to hold together and it was. I made sure to triple check her and took her to the vet to make sure it was all ok, and it was.

Darn brat, I guess she didnt want to visit the vet aftetr what happend last time. A short sleep and a grogy ride home and a little healing pain in the gut.

Ashley

It was 3 days after Sophies op when she managed to get her e-collar off then pulled out one stitch!.

Luckily she was at the vets the next day for a post of check up and they said it was ok because the stitches inside were still there.

It would have been a different story though if she had managed to get to those as well

The dog that I used to have did that after he got fixed. He didn't have any stitches, but he kept licking the area.....I guess because it hurt.....and it got infected. Once it was infected, it hurt even more, and he began licking frantically and crying at the same time. I had to take him back to the vet and he was running a fever......so he had to be put on antibiotics, a pain pill, and an anti-anxiety pill......and had to wear the "lampshade." Poor guy kept running into things with that big lampshade around his neck. Whenever I took him outside to use the bathroom.....he'd fall down the porch steps.....so I'd have to carry him. I had to basically keep him sedated for almost a week because the lampshade was making him crazy.

Wow I thought they all used disolving stitches now a days?

For the last couple years they've been using a glue here...

I'm glad she's okay. Myth tried hard to get her stitches out.

I had a cat once that had hip surgery on each hip. He very carefully using his eye teeth untied and removed each stitch over several days. His incisions were fine. But then a few months later he apparently remembered this skill and removed the stitches from my kitten's spay surgery, the very next day. Poor kitten had to get sedated and restitched. I had to keep them separated for a week. Becky

Originally Posted by Sicycat

Wow I thought they all used disolving stitches now a days?

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I was told it depended on the size of the wound by my vet.

Compared to Rosies incision when she got spayed, Sophies was tiny!, all thanks to micro surgery

They said the would use internal stitches that dissolved, but when i picked her up they said they'd had problems getting her uterus out so they had to cut a little more than normal so she had to have i think it was 4 stitches? on the outside.

It was still smaller than Rosies though.

Originally Posted by zanniesmom

But then a few months later he apparently remembered this skill and removed the stitches from my kitten's spay surgery, the very next day. Poor kitten had to get sedated and restitched. I had to keep them separated for a week. Becky

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Poor kitten, lol. I bet that makes the vet trips worse. Babi is now mad at me and runs like crazy to avoide me .

Ashley

When we had Eby spayed, she pulled out all her stitches, too. And this was the old-fashioned surgery were they opened her up all the way. The vet thought it was probably within a day or two of the surgery, too. They had butchered her, though. They had pumped her so full of anethesia it took her five days before she could stand up without swaying. Back then my mom didn't know anything about what real vet care was like (still doesn't, for that matter), and I was only 10 years old. It never crossed our minds that this was unusual and that we should have been worried.

Thankfully she healed okay, and I don't think she felt any pain because she was so out of it. The only problem was when she got older and gained weight, the scar was so thick that it must not have stretched along with the rest of the skin, and because of that she kept pulling the hair out around her scar.