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I have a kitten about 9 months old who stays indoors and whom I was able to take outside till about 2-3 months back. It just wound up at my door step when it was about 2 months old and I have been taking care of it ever since. It wouldn't let me near for the first week to ten days but then warmed up to human contact. Like I said I shifted home about 3 months back and since then the kitten had to stay indoors due to the location of my present home. I was in no hurry to fix the kitten since it was indoors and I was more concerned about getting it settled in. But then, a few local cats started paying nightly visits to my home and would keep sitting on window sills and doorsteps and I could hear a lot of meaowing and growling in the night. I used to wake up and shoo away the other cats but they kept returning. I suspected that my kitten was in heat and took him/ her to the vet. The "vet", the only one available where I live (for pretty much miles from here), examined the kitten and pronounced that it was in heat and he would spay it after it gets out of heat. The outdoor cat incidents kept occurring and the vet kept delaying the surgery and since I din't have an option I kept pestering him and he finally agreed to fix it last Sunday. The vet sedated the kitten and cut open its tummy but then he said that he couldn't find the uterus and that its a male!!! (Its true, the kitten is a male and he IS a vet but then I live in a country where I have no recourse) He then sutured up the stomach cut and neutered the kitten instead. The kitten removed 2 out of the 4 sutures within 2 days of the surgery and the other 2 are still intact. It did bleed a little for 3 days and then the bleeding stopped and I just couldn't bring myself to take the kitten to the vet. The kitten does lick her sutures and cone of shame and anti lick spray haven't worked. The situation improved and the bleeding stopped. Now, yesterday I noticed slight redness at the gash and today I could notice a few drops of blood where he sleeps. The kitten is lively, has a healthy appetite and doesn't appear to be in pain. I have no option but the one "vet" and I really don't know what to do. The kitten is extremely lively and probably that is the reason the healing is taking time. Also I guess the blood stains only form when he is sleeping as at other times he licks the blood away. Any advice would help, I even have pictures of the wound if somebody needs a look at it. Please reply early as I don't want to cause him any more harm. Already ashamed of myself for the situation I have put him in.