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04-14-2006, 06:59 AM | #1 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Missouri
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| Spaying Questions Hey Everyone! Long time no post! Things have been hectic here and Bella is growing like a WEED. Can you believe she's 5 months old TODAY?! Seems like just yesterday we picked her up from the breeder! Anyway...onto my questions... I've done as much research on my own as I can, and I've read the aftercare paper about a million and three times, lol, and I still am having a hard time. We got Bella spayed on Tuesday (the 11th), her surgery went great and the vet actually said she's a great dog and so easy to work with. She didn't really have that rough a night, whimpered a little bit when held, and slept a lot, but other than that she was fine. The next day though she started to get back to her old self. Which includes trying to jump a lot, run a lot and use her doggy steps. We're trying our hardest to keep her penned quite a bit during the day so she sleeps a lot and isn't that active, but at night and in the mornings we have to let her out for exercise and it's impossible to keep her from doing these things. We HAVE to keep her doggy steps up, otherwise she attempts to JUMP on the couch (most of the time succeeding!) and jump off the couch....which to me are WORSE than using her steps. Is it really that bad if she does? Use her steps that is. Also, we're keeping a close eye on her incision and haven't really noticed anything out of the ordinary, although she does have redness around the holes of her stitches...it's not redness that looks like it's infected or anything, I'm not sure if it's red because it's healing or what. It's not a bright red...more of a pink. There's no oozing, and she doesn't appear to be in pain at all, but I'm afraid with all of her activity she'll cause an infection...is that possible? I work from home which m eans I can check on her quite a bit...but I can't hover over her all the time, I haven't noticed her attempting to lick her incision or pull at her stitches, but I'm so afraid that she will eventually start and I won't see her doing it. As time goes on, is this something to worry about if she hasn't started doing it already? And last question...sorry guys, lol, yesterday she started biting at her backside. We not only had her spayed, but also microchipped and she got the last of her shots, rabies and everything, could that have something to do with it? She acts like it itches..but this morning it looked as if she was trying to chase her nub (tail), lol, could it just be that she just discovered it was there and that I'm just paranoid and it has nothing to do with her surgery or anything? Okay...the pain is done, lol! Any feedback would be highly appreciated, thanks!
__________________ Carrie & Isabella Kelli - 1995-2005 - Always in Our Hearts, Babygirl. Bella's Dogster Kelli's Dogster |
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04-14-2006, 07:15 AM | #2 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: North eastern Illinois Suburbs
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| Yes, high activity can encourage an infection if for no other reason than the constant stretching of the incision site. That will allow for bacteria to enter much more easily and will also cause her to lick the site eventually due to the irritation of the pull that is caused by her running around like a Yorkie! lol Yeah, so I'd either keep her on your lap as much as possible, in the crate at your feet, have on a leash in the house, whatever you need to do to keep her w/ you for the next three days easy. It's no fun when/if an infection does sit in. And besides, if there is a lot of trauma to that area, internally her tissue will be affected and remember that as I type she's developing scar tissue, well she'll develope more of it if there's constant pulling and tearing just by her extending like she does naturally if jumping or running up stairs. As far as her chewing at her butt periodically she should've only received one shot back there if you gave her a normal series. If so, check to see if she has a small pea sized lump under her skin at the injection site. If so, I personally put a warm damp cloth on it for about 5-10 minutes as often throughout the day as I can manage and it seems to go away by the end of the next day completely and my dogs seem to appreciate it! After the lump has formed, I don't massage it either...it only seems to irritate them further, the warm compress seems to do the trick! Hope this helps! |
04-14-2006, 07:27 AM | #3 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Missouri
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| So even her stretching in her pen can cause an infection? I can't keep her from doing that, lol. She'll stretch up and try to get you to let her out when you walk by even, which is hard but I know I'm doing this for her own good. She's been walking up and down the steps since the day after her surgery...so I'm guessing that was completely wrong? Now I'm worried. I really thought it was just about LIMITING her activity not stopping it alltogether, even the vet said, "do the best you can" because Bella is not one to just sit on her hind end and not do anything, lol. I'm so confused on what to do...like I said from 8am till around 5pm she's in her pen and only let out for about an hour around lunch to wander around and play. Then from about 5pm until around 8 or 9 at night she's allowed to walk around, play with her toys and climb all over us, lol. We're trying to limit it as much as possible, are we causing her more damage by letting her be a little active? I'll check her backside today. She's not biting it excessively that I can tell, just occasionally she'll run in a circle trying to get to it, that's what made me think maybe she's chasing her nub, lol. Thanks for the response!
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04-14-2006, 07:38 AM | #4 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: North eastern Illinois Suburbs
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| Didn't mean to worry you further... Yeah, don't get worried. I'm just letting you know that a GREAT rule of thumb is: "Everything in moderation". Even if you overdo the "good stuff" you can get injured. Stretching is natural and is good for a virtually any dog. However,again in your case you really want to limit that as much as you can until her suture site has accumulated some scabbing and the redness has subsided. Let it get well on it's way to healing so the body can better protect itself for infection and then let her go back to her normal self. For me usually three or four days are all my "kids" need before their suture sites look good enough that I feel they can play around. I still wouldn't let them jump on the sofa and such or race up the stairs, but otherwise everything else is okay. And I'd just check the site a few times daily to make sure everything still looks like it's holding and she has less and less sensitivity to the site. |
04-14-2006, 07:43 AM | #5 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Missouri
Posts: 248
| Oh no, please understand, I'm a worrier by nature! lol A lot of it has to do with us just losing our other yorkie baby about 4 months ago. I just wanna make sure we do everything possible to make sure she's okay. We were actually going to take her pen down before we had her surgery done but I'm glad we didn't now. I wanna make sure she's as protected as possible. She sleeps a lot and like I said, the only thing I see is some "pinkness" around the holes of her stitches and that's it. She has a tiny purplish bruise above her incision but I figured that's to be expected. I will keep in mind everything you said, I really appreciate your help!
__________________ Carrie & Isabella Kelli - 1995-2005 - Always in Our Hearts, Babygirl. Bella's Dogster Kelli's Dogster |
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