Just got Zoe spayed... I feel terrible!

[aprofetto]

We brought Zoe to the vet yesterday to be spayed.

My wife and I feel so bad about it... I really don't know what it is thats bothering us.

I wish I could tell her she was going to be fine and it'd be over before she knew it, but when I left for work yesterday morning she was just staring at me wagging her tail... if she only knew what was coming later that day.

When I got home last night from soccer, it was late around midnight, and she was laying in her bed next to our bed. I picked her up carefully and brought her downstairs for a midnight bathroom break.

When I laid her down on the floor, she just had this look in her eyes like 'I'm so confused papa...'. She started peeing while she was laying down which is extremely unusual.

I just tried to comfort her and tell her it was okay as I soaked up the pee with plenty of paper towels.

I carried her back upstairs and put her in her bed. Petted her a bit as her puppy eyes melted my heart. I could've cried looking into her eyes. So to make myself feel better I put my pillow on the ground beside her and slept for an hour or so side by side with her.

Now, as for the actual incision, it looks fine, but its just exposed stitches and she doesn't have one of those 'cones' over her head. The vet said to just keep an eye on her that she doesn't start biting at them.

I kind of don't like the idea of it being exposed though. Would it be bad to put gauze over the incision and use surgical tape to hold it?

[crisp]

The gauze and tape might make her want to bite at it more, they don't like something being stuck to them. The cone should help.

[CassandGunnar]

Chrissy had her spay surgery 1 week ago today. She had no visible sutures, just a sealed incision. We were told to keep an eye on it and not to cover it or bandage it. She never messed with it and there were no problems.
We are also home all of time with her so we could keep a close eye on her.
She is perfectly back to normal now and we were all outside for some play/exercise for almost an hour.
She was miserable for the first night, but we took her in at 8:30 in the morning and picked her up at 4:30 the same day. Between the surgery/meds/stress, she slept on and off for the remainder of the first day, but was fine the next morning.
This morning, she had no problem keeping up with the other two dogs.

[aprofetto]

Great, thanks for the advice!

We will leave the incision as is and just keep an eye on our precious little baby.

[ba1614]

I have a month or so before I'm taking my girl in, and I'm a wreck already! I've always had males, and don't neuter, so this is a new experience for me. I can't believe how much I'm fretting this, you would think my wife or one of our kids were going under the knife or something!
My wife was LHAO when I started argueing with the vet that I wasn't leaving her at their office the night before.

Good luck with the recovery, and any tips to prepare are always appreciated. I'll be relieved when it's over.

[Pattycakes]

AAwww...hope Zoe is feeling better today as well as you. Dogs are pretty resilient and she will be back to her old self before you know it. When I had Uschi spayed...she had stitches on the inside and the outside was glued so there were no stitches showing. She didn't bother them at all.

[GSDGunner]

I know how you feel. When I had Gunner neutered the effects of the sedation was hard to watch. He looked so confused, his eyes were all glassy and droopy. It broke my heart.
I only coned him when we weren't able to be with him. And since that included night time, I didn't want him in his crate with a cone on. So my husband spent the first night on the couch with him.

It's truly heartbreaking to see them like that. They have no idea why they feel that way.
I hope she's feeling better really soon.

[aprofetto]

Originally Posted by ba1614

I have a month or so before I'm taking my girl in, and I'm a wreck already! I've always had males, and don't neuter, so this is a new experience for me. I can't believe how much I'm fretting this, you would think my wife or one of our kids were going under the knife or something!
My wife was LHAO when I started argueing with the vet that I wasn't leaving her at their office the night before.

Good luck with the recovery, and any tips to prepare are always appreciated. I'll be relieved when it's over.

lol I felt the exact same way.

Honestly, when I really try to think hard whats bothering me so much, I think it was the fact that I couldn't talk to her and tell her what was happening. It was the fact we had to blindside her with the surgery.

If I could've mentally prepared her by telling her what was going to happen, etc., then I would've felt better.

But when she stares at you wagging her tail looking like 'what're we going to do today papa - play fetch, run in the backyard?' with a smile on her face, its what really hurts.

My wife thinks that Zoe is mad at her because she's the one who drove her to the vet, LOL.

[Rerun]

Couple of days and she'll feel good as new, and you'll be having to keep her on a tight rein until things are totally healed up.

[Rott-n-GSDs]

Try your hardest not to feel guilty/upset around her. She'll pick up on that, and wonder what she's done to make her mommy & daddy upset.

It is so difficult to see our babies hurting!