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Hi guys, am getting Tessa(3 months old kitten) spayed this Friday October 7th.
Am a first time fur parent.
Am getting really worried bout her post op care(no thanks to the internet and all the nightmare experiences some have had, and also a friend who had her cat recently spayed, and the internal stitching opened up, and her cat had to go through another surgery due to the infection being so bad).
I know that with the current medicine practice they will use internal stitching which will reduce the problems of the stitching getting scratched or opening up.
Also read that since due to the anesthetic used, she will be less prone to hop around like amad girl cute kitten for the first few days at least.
A little background, I adopted her and her brother together(he is going to get his 'balls' chopped neutering done once she is settled). They play wrestling games like kids(duh!) a lot. So I will have to separate her while she heals. One thin is whenever I crate one of them for misbehaving, the other would go and sit by the crate as if visiting the other one, yes, it's adorable. But makes me worried bout having to separate them for so long(especially when I'm at work - I leave my house at 6.30am, and only get back around 8pm, currently they do whatever they want in the house, I leave Earthborn kibbles out, and I feed them once in the morning and once in the evening, there's usually some kibbles left when I get home, unless it's the fish based one, then it's gone clean)
Here's my question to those of you who have had your cats spayed.
Do you cage them? If yes, how small/big should the cage be? Right now my friend has loaned me her cage, but it's like really small. This is both of them in the cage, wanted to see how crammed it was.
As you can see, the litter box that can fit is also very small
Bout buying a bigger crate, most crates now scale according to the width and height, so my concern is she is going to end up scaling the cage 'walls'! And yeah, these two are jumpers and climbers, unlike my friends cats who can't even jump up onto the kitchen counter
(or maybe I should be smacking my own coz mine would always end up sleeping on my dining table). Am so worried that she is going to do a spiderman hanging on the cage when I get home and her stitching exposed *Biting nails*
I have a spare room... You can fit a queen size bed, a wardrobe and a dressing table. I was thinking of confining her to the room. If I do use it, then I will only leave a litter box, and probably the spare queen size bed for her to sleep on(I know , I'm pampering her to bits) and leave the air conditioning on for her as the room gets a lot of evening sun. BUT I did read of one cat owner who tried that, as in keeping her cat in a spare room, and her cat started jumping and clawing at the door wanting to get out, she believed it was coz her cat missed her other cats.
Ok, I know I'm being OVERLY protective of my cat(do I need medical help???)....
Any advice please?
Am a first time fur parent.
Am getting really worried bout her post op care(no thanks to the internet and all the nightmare experiences some have had, and also a friend who had her cat recently spayed, and the internal stitching opened up, and her cat had to go through another surgery due to the infection being so bad).
I know that with the current medicine practice they will use internal stitching which will reduce the problems of the stitching getting scratched or opening up.
Also read that since due to the anesthetic used, she will be less prone to hop around like a
A little background, I adopted her and her brother together(he is going to get his
Here's my question to those of you who have had your cats spayed.
Do you cage them? If yes, how small/big should the cage be? Right now my friend has loaned me her cage, but it's like really small. This is both of them in the cage, wanted to see how crammed it was.
As you can see, the litter box that can fit is also very small
Bout buying a bigger crate, most crates now scale according to the width and height, so my concern is she is going to end up scaling the cage 'walls'! And yeah, these two are jumpers and climbers, unlike my friends cats who can't even jump up onto the kitchen counter
I have a spare room... You can fit a queen size bed, a wardrobe and a dressing table. I was thinking of confining her to the room. If I do use it, then I will only leave a litter box, and probably the spare queen size bed for her to sleep on(I know , I'm pampering her to bits) and leave the air conditioning on for her as the room gets a lot of evening sun. BUT I did read of one cat owner who tried that, as in keeping her cat in a spare room, and her cat started jumping and clawing at the door wanting to get out, she believed it was coz her cat missed her other cats.
Ok, I know I'm being OVERLY protective of my cat(do I need medical help???)....
Any advice please?