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6 month old kitten's incision from spay looks questionable
Hey all,
ok so i really don't understand what's going on with my kitten. She got spayed on November 15th, 2017 and we were not given an e-collar. everything was going fine cause myself or my boyfriend would be home to monitor her but throughout the night she had been licking her incision a bit, as one night I woke up and caught her. I also want to note that when she came home and I examined her incision I thought it was rather open and almost looked like the stitch job was not done properly but because this is my first time ever seeing a cat's spay incision, I thought maybe that the vet must have thought it would be fine to send her home with me looking that way. I severely questioned this... anyway, Sunday got progressively worse with her incessantly going for her incision, so we cut out a hole on a paper plate and used that for the day to try to prevent her from going to her wound every minute of the day. I took her to get checked out and pick up a collar for her as well on Monday (the following day). During this time they took her to the examining room, as i waiting in the waiting room. They brought her back to me, said they gave her an antibiotic that should last her two weeks through injection, and glued her incision a little more shut than it was along with an e-collar. So here I am thinking, "great she should be to start healing!".... Well I have some photos of what it looks like today (Thursday, November 23, 2017) three days after the glue/antibiotic/ecollar appointment. I don't know how to attach to this, but It looks much worse than it did when I went in on Monday, and now I don't know whether I should go get a different opinion from a different vet, because her wound looks terrible! It appears that I can see a suture, and it even smells funky, as if to say it IS infected. Someone have ideas for me?
ok so i really don't understand what's going on with my kitten. She got spayed on November 15th, 2017 and we were not given an e-collar. everything was going fine cause myself or my boyfriend would be home to monitor her but throughout the night she had been licking her incision a bit, as one night I woke up and caught her. I also want to note that when she came home and I examined her incision I thought it was rather open and almost looked like the stitch job was not done properly but because this is my first time ever seeing a cat's spay incision, I thought maybe that the vet must have thought it would be fine to send her home with me looking that way. I severely questioned this... anyway, Sunday got progressively worse with her incessantly going for her incision, so we cut out a hole on a paper plate and used that for the day to try to prevent her from going to her wound every minute of the day. I took her to get checked out and pick up a collar for her as well on Monday (the following day). During this time they took her to the examining room, as i waiting in the waiting room. They brought her back to me, said they gave her an antibiotic that should last her two weeks through injection, and glued her incision a little more shut than it was along with an e-collar. So here I am thinking, "great she should be to start healing!".... Well I have some photos of what it looks like today (Thursday, November 23, 2017) three days after the glue/antibiotic/ecollar appointment. I don't know how to attach to this, but It looks much worse than it did when I went in on Monday, and now I don't know whether I should go get a different opinion from a different vet, because her wound looks terrible! It appears that I can see a suture, and it even smells funky, as if to say it IS infected. Someone have ideas for me?
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