Sydney got spayed yesterday
We both dropped her off at the vet...she cried the whole car trip there b/c any car trip that involves both mommy and daddy...must be bad. Plus she was hungry and I wouldn't let her have her breakfast no matter how much she begged. We got to the vet and I gave the technician a towel to put in her cage and a chew toy to keep her from being bored. As the technician carried her away she just looked pathetically at us over her sholder as if to say "I won't be bad ever again if you just take me home".
We were allowed to go back to get her at 5:30...I wasn't about to let her stay overnight especially after they told me that the only purpose of that is so that they can check her stitches in the morning. She was groggy but she still recognized us and seemed very happy to see us. She looked awful. Her hair was all tangled and matted. Her face was crusty (she drools when she is nervous). All in all she just looked so sad and unkept. The technician gave me back the towel and chew toy obviously un-used.
I mean how hard is it to put a towel in the bottom of her cage. She has never slept on the hard floor of her cage and I didn't want this to be any more of a bad experience than it already was.
We were told that she could only have small amounts of water that night and that we couldn't feed her until morning. She kept dry-heaving all night...sick from the gas they used to make her go to sleep. Finally she fell asleep in her crate and slept until morning. I felt better that she was at least in her own home safe even if she was in pain.
So this morning when I got her up she was soooo weak from not eating that she was shaking all over. This didn't improve until about a half hour after she ate her breakfast. Poor thing. Then my fiance took her back to the vet because they had to check her stitches. I'm still steaming mad about this...the vet who saw her for her stitches is one that I have had before and really dislike (I made sure that he was not performing her surgery). He looked at the stitches and said they looked good. And then took them between his fingers and started pinching her stitches.
Of course she screamed and cried and tried to bite the Doc. (personally I wish that she had bit him). My fiance was soooo mad that he didn't even know what to say. I can't imagine any reason for that to be medically necessary. The poor thing is already in enough pain. If their was someone I could report him too I would. I am just so angry.