Apollo Is Being Fixed Today! **Question - About Males Being Fixed**

[aTailOf2Kitties]

my vet left the incisions open but never instructed anyone to confine the cat afterward

[Medusa]

I can't imagine why he'd need to be isolated for a week. Every cat that I've ever had neutered was running around as soon as he got home.

[Catlady711]

Yes it's normal for them to have an 'open' incision area. I don't know the specifics of why, but that's the way they do them where I work. As long as your kitty isn't licking that area alot or something is oozing out, he will be fine.

As for staying overnight, every vet is different. Some vets prefer more pain meds and observation than others. Neither is wrong or right, just different ways of doing the same thing.

As for confining him for a week, that's probably a vet preference also.

Where I work standard after-care instructions for a kitty neuter are....

*Restrict activity for 5 days, confine only if cat is tearing around alot.

*Check insicion area daily looking for signs of infection, swelling, or drainage.

*Normal grooming of the area is fine, but if cat keeps at the area distract it, if that doesn't work, call and we can use an e-collar if necessary.

*Keep cat indoors and no bathing for 10 days.


I have 4 male cats that were neutered at different times by 2 different vets and that was my aftercare instructions on all of them. We had no problems with healing at all and I only confined for the first night on Bear, Pooky & Jack, but had to confine for 2 days for Josh.

I'm sure your baby will heal up just fine.

[Anikaca77]

Thank you all for your input.

Last night was a tough night for him. He hates being confined. He woke me up around 12:30 a.m. last night and I went in and he was out of food so once I gave him some food he settled down. He was just up again around 6:30 a.m. wanting attention and wanting out.

I think we will keep him in there for just a little while yet since we will be leaving to go over to my parents for Thanksgiving but when we come back maybe we will see how he does out with everyone and then we'll see how he does.

Thanks for the info & Happy Turkey Day!

Melissa

[Tora Oni]

SNIP Clinic around here I volunteered one day to wake up the boys. Most had little opening from surgery, another thing is my cat ripped his stitches out, after the night after, we didn't have other cats so we just let him roam. Though kinda was worried about the stitches being ripped out...but lucky us nothing ever came from that. Yeah most cats stayed over night and then next day they got picked up, when we got our dog spayed there they said just don't let her get too hyper and bouncy but she was running all over the place like nothing happened. Nothing came from that either.

[Don Juan's mom]

Don Juan was neutered at the Humane Society before I could bring him home. They kept him overnight. When I picked him up, I didn't see any stitches, just the place where the fur was shaved around where his "kitty bits" used to be. And they didn't advise confinement, other than the usual advice to keep the new adoptee in a single room until he was used to his new home.

Of course, he was an adult (18 months) at the time, and quite healthy. Perhaps Apollo has an age or health issue that made the vet issue these particular instructions?

Liz

[momcat]

When Groucho was neutered, our vet kept him overnight. Even though I missed him, I was happy that he stayed so the vet crew could keep an eye on him after the procedure. The next day Groucho was very happy to come home and he was his normal self.

[trouble666]

I can't imagine why he'd need to be isolated for a week. Every cat that I've ever had neutered was running around as soon as he got home.

Hi I'm tracey
My Bambi was ready to eat, drink and play. He was fine to me I know he was hungry and thristy. Bambi was just very happy to be home with his mom.

[katladyd]

My vet does a great job with male neutering. Both males I have had fixed there came home and just started to run and play with the other cats. Ming raced up his kitty tree to the top the second I let him out of the cat carrier. It is really a minor surgery, so my vet says, and most of the time they are in very little, if any, pain. Buddy came home and just started playing and racing around. It neve hurt them at all.