luvhandles
Young Bun
Hi,
I'd like to share this with you as it may help somebody. When I had Snowball speyed last year she was a little monkey and chewed her stitches on the first night.......I slept by her side and although she had her head down, I assumed that she was maybe licking the wound because as the vet used a special stitching technique with internal knots and sealed the wound with surgical glue, I didn't think she would be able to do any damage but she did :shock: The next morning she had a huge gaping hole and I had to whizz her back to the vet who was amazed how on earth she had managed to lick the glue away and get to the stitches. She was stapled up and had an Elizibethan collar fitted which she managed to get off before I had even left the surgery :roll:
In the end, we loosley bandaged her middle and made a little jacket out of and old childrens sweater and it worked! She didn't bother with her wound again. I've posted this because it may help somebody - please watch your bun for chewing stitches......to this day I'm still traumatised by the image of that gaping wound
Here's a pic of Snowball in her special jacket 8)
Hayley
I'd like to share this with you as it may help somebody. When I had Snowball speyed last year she was a little monkey and chewed her stitches on the first night.......I slept by her side and although she had her head down, I assumed that she was maybe licking the wound because as the vet used a special stitching technique with internal knots and sealed the wound with surgical glue, I didn't think she would be able to do any damage but she did :shock: The next morning she had a huge gaping hole and I had to whizz her back to the vet who was amazed how on earth she had managed to lick the glue away and get to the stitches. She was stapled up and had an Elizibethan collar fitted which she managed to get off before I had even left the surgery :roll:
In the end, we loosley bandaged her middle and made a little jacket out of and old childrens sweater and it worked! She didn't bother with her wound again. I've posted this because it may help somebody - please watch your bun for chewing stitches......to this day I'm still traumatised by the image of that gaping wound
Here's a pic of Snowball in her special jacket 8)
Hayley