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Originally Posted by Hopesmom  Is there anything we can use to clean the crusted area over the incision or should we just leave it alone? |
I would leave it alone.
To me, it depends on the dog, how it's healed, and incision itself. When I had my Italian Greyhound, Aiyana, spayed, she was a very sick girl with pyometra - The vet made a VERY tiny incision that thealed quickly, when I took her back a week later, the vet herself advised me to start doing hydrotherapy with her again (we'd been doing it almost daily before we had to spay her), and immediately got me back into her rehab area with her rehab tech. So that was only 7 days, but her incision is far smaller then any dog I've ever had spayed - You can't even tell she's spayed now, there's no noticible scar. If she hadn't been so worried about her bleeding out and having complications, she would have done a normal incision, most vets like to make a slightly larger incision because it does make the surgery a bit easier, and it makes the scar more noticable so there's no question if your dog is spayed if you ever have to prove it. Most dogs, I'd say 10-14 days, but go with what your vet recommends, they know what materials they used and how they did it, as there are different ways to do a spay.