My Bentley was neutered last Friday. Dropped him off at 8 am and picked him up at 5:30 pm. He didn't have any teeth pulled. They sent him home with a collar that was too big. I put it on him that night to sleep and he took it right off, so I didn't use it. It was the weekend so I just carefully watched him so he wouldn't lick the incision. I let him sleep with me over the weekend. Early Monday morning about 3 am I put him in his crate because he was moving around. Between 3 and 6 he licked his incision site and came open a bit. Took him to the vet that morning and they gave him antibiotics because it was infected. The vet said the sutures are inside and they just close the outer skin with some kind of super glue type stuff. I got a smaller cone and thought it was all good and he would be healed by Friday. Yesterday while at work, he found a way to lick the incision site with the cone on! This has been a nightmare trying to get it to heal! I put the bigger cone back on and he hasn't tried to take it off. I felt sorry for him trying to sleep in it so I cut 2 holes in a sock for his legs and put that on him like underwear last night. He took that off in the night so I made a better one today. I'll just be glad when the stupid thing heals....it was the tiniest little incision! |