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Spay wound

vee-jay

vee-jay

Mama Doe
Hi,
So I got one of my girls spayed last thursday. She was drinking the same day and was eating like normal the next, bounced right back.
Anyway I found her today with her wound open a little:?
Think i might take her to teh vets tonight, but i was wodnering if it normally looks like that and will heal normally, or if it actually needs treatment
thanks :)
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Charlee pulled her stitches out after about 3 days, then about a week after her spay did mad zoomies around her pen. As a result her wound opened a little. I took her back to the vet. They decided that as it was scabbing over, and the skin had sewn together that there was no point putting new stitches in. Plus she would just pull them back out. We just had to watch her and put a little savalon on it everyday.
 
When Peach was spayed she had 3 staples, not stitches, as the vet said rabbits were prone to licking stitches out. He'd not reckoned with Peach though, who'd pulled all three stitches out within 24 hours. I rang him in a panic but he said not to worry, but just bring her back on Monday (it was, by now, Saturday) for more. I was worried over the weekend about her, especially since she refused to stay in the dog cage so hid under my bed, but still went through to the lounge to use her litter tray. But she was fine. She had 5 staples in on the Monday but the vet said rabbits heal very quickly so it wasn't totally necessary.

Therefore don't panic. She'll rpobably be fine (though wise to get her checked out anyway).

M
 
I'd get her checked personally :) They use this special glue to hold the skin together, she could need that. Brings me back to when I had Smudge spayed, the day after she was rushed back to the vets because overnight she ripped all her stitches out! Sent me into a right panic! The vets said they'd never seen a bunny heal so fast, her wound was open but not properly open if you get me? Anyway she had glue, and had to have a little collar because she just couldn't leave her tummy alone bless her. She was back up there a few days later, liquidy lumps under the site, they couldn't work out what was wrong, she went back under..turns out girly was allergic to her internal stitches! Hoping all goes smoothly with your little miss:D
 
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