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For history purposes, I will explain: My cat, Titan, is 7 years old and 3 days ago he got P/U surgery because he had another blockage. I say 'another' because he had a history with them, 3 years ago he had a really bad one to the point where he went into kidney failure but he got saved by the doctors. Ever since then, he's been on the 'Purina One Urinary Tract Health' Wet food. All of a sudden though, he had another blockage (not nearly as bad as there was no blood coming out and the kidneys were OK) and we took him to the vet. The doctor gave us two options: catheter or P/U surgery, and we chose the P/U. Now, I have absolutely no idea how it's supposed to look, but on first glance it looked pretty... gruesome? A lot of clots and scabs (?), I got worried.
I tried to prevent my cat from jumping on my bed (he sleeps there all the time), but sometimes I couldn't catch him in time and he would jump up onto my bed without me seeing. I can't put him in his cage otherwise he will take the cone off in the cage. And even then, he took his cone off by himself when I wasn't in the room!! And he licked his wound 2 days into healing...
And then, on top of that... he didn't have diarrhea per-se, but he had very soft poop and, well...I definitely had to wash it off the best I could without rubbing. I'm really worried it might be getting infected now because of that.
CONTENT WARNING NOW CAUSE THERES IMAGES
First image is on Day 2, when I caught him licking. Looks clean cause he licked it.
Second image is right now.
Yeah... it looks a lot more icky, but is that how it's...supposed to look?? Or do I need to see a vet because there might be infection? And is there dehiscence also?? I'm not experienced in how stitches look, so I apologize.
For more context, this was a laser surgery, not the normal scalpel one.
I tried to prevent my cat from jumping on my bed (he sleeps there all the time), but sometimes I couldn't catch him in time and he would jump up onto my bed without me seeing. I can't put him in his cage otherwise he will take the cone off in the cage. And even then, he took his cone off by himself when I wasn't in the room!! And he licked his wound 2 days into healing...
And then, on top of that... he didn't have diarrhea per-se, but he had very soft poop and, well...I definitely had to wash it off the best I could without rubbing. I'm really worried it might be getting infected now because of that.
CONTENT WARNING NOW CAUSE THERES IMAGES
First image is on Day 2, when I caught him licking. Looks clean cause he licked it.
Second image is right now.
Yeah... it looks a lot more icky, but is that how it's...supposed to look?? Or do I need to see a vet because there might be infection? And is there dehiscence also?? I'm not experienced in how stitches look, so I apologize.
For more context, this was a laser surgery, not the normal scalpel one.