Spayed (and bloody miserable on walks)

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Our dog was spayed on Thursday morning last week. We've been told no jumping, running, off-lead walks to ensure the surgery site doesn't get inflamed.

we have tried our very best to stop her jumping, but with the best will in the world she is faster than we are and she's up and down on the sofa/bed etc without a care. We're keeping her on lead (much to her disgust - she wants to play with other dogs and chase squirrels) but every time she goes into the garden to wee she zooms about mad because she has so much energy.

Should we start taking her into the garden on a lead? Lead in the house? 😩

Photo to share her lovely wee face

I took mine for 10 minute walks several times a day, sniffy ones. She too is very energetic; stuffed Kongs, brain games, teaching her simple tricks, anything to occupy her brain.
pit’s not easy but after a few weeks she’ll be back to normal.

I would definitely do the lead in the garden , if those stitches split it will be a pain for her and costly for you

If she can't be trusted to settle calmly on her own then she either needs to be crated or on a lead until she's fully recovered.

I know it's a pain but it will be even worse if she splits her stitches or the wound site becomes infected because she keeps jumping all over the place.

Yes if she is running round the garden then she should be on the lead. If she is running round the house and jumping on the furniture she needs to be in a crate. I know it's hard. After my old dog was spayed she was so hyper she tried to jump out the window! But you need to keep her quiet to give the muscles a chance to heal. It's only for a really short period of time then she can run round all she likes.

Thank you, your words are what I needed to toughen up and persevere. Tbf in the house she's not leaping about - she's curled up on the sofa a lot of the time.

It was keyhole surgery, so she's really bounced back extraordinarily quickly.

What are her wounds looking like? We got the all clear one week after our dogs laproscopic spay so might only be a couple more days.

Word of warning, when I got my dog spayed she was impossible to keep calm and just like you was quicker than us climbing on the sofa and having a naughty zoom in the garden. As a result she got a hernia, a £700 operation and a few more miserable weeks completely in a crate.

It's difficult when the dog seems absolutely fine but until you get the all clear from the vets realllyy try to limit her movement.

How are her wounds looking? Is she generally fit and healthy? I tend to measure how the dog is more than what is advised. My current girl didn't need to lead walk at all and self regulated her running & jumping. One of my previous dogs ended up standing knee deep in a creek 4 days post castration and was fine. Neither were key hole, so proper wounds and stitches. I'm not suggesting this is ideal, but every dog is different & doesn't necessarily need to follow "the book" - a bit like children!!
Hope your gorgeous girl is OK, OP.

I am having our 40+kg pup neutered on Thursday, I am dreading this part of it. I am hoping short sniffy walls spread out through the day will help.

I was dreading it but ours was so sick from the painkillers and anaesthetic that she just walked round throwing up for 3 days , then spent days looking so sorry for herself 🙁

My dog was the same after he was castrated. Almost as soon as we got home he was back to his normal springy self. I emailed the vets as in the garden even on the lead he was trying to gallop around, they said to take him out on lead walks instead for toileting. They said as long as it was controlled walking (not his best skill anyway 😂)the distance & frequency of the walks didn't matter so much. So I ended up doing 2 20 min walks a day & lots of smaller 5/10 min wee/poo walks. I'm not going to suggest you do it without speaking to your vet but it worked for us & he had his stitches out 10 days later

I am worried about the whole thing for my dog, when our small dog (under 10kg) had his neuter he was really sleepy even when we collected him and I had to carry him to the car, not a chance I could carry our big boy. Also the stuff vets say should make him sleepy don't seem to (enforced vomiting after raisin incident) so I am worried he won't even have that first 24 hrs of sleepiness.

With my cats I didn't do anything out of the ordinary, they didn't even wear cones as one of them was so distressed seeing the other with it on I couldn't and they were fine but obviously dogs are likely to be different.

I also hate the thought of a cone, my pug has just had eye surgery and had one for 3 weeks, it was horrible, with such a big dog I am worried about it really. The pug had a surgical suit after which was great but not sure they will have one big enough

Touch wood, Maggie has been totally uninterested in her wound. No licking or fussing at all. We were given a cone but have not needed it.

She's just a wee dot too, only 7kg. Have no idea how you'd manage to lift big dogs in this situation - eek!

I know, it literally came into my head a few days ago, a 7 stone sleepy dog will be tricky. You can't park right outside either.

Well apparently an anaesthetic can't keep my huge dog down! You wouldn't have even known he had anything done which is a nightmare as he has not been sleeping much really. My other dog was really sleepy when he had his done and never seemed in pain, whereas this dog is whimpering a lot and seems really uncomfortable, I am not sure the pain killers are touching the sides poor thing.

He can take his cone off easily also so he just pulls it off to try and lick. I am going to age 10 years in the next 10 days lol!

She's had the all clear from the vet and very much enjoyed being back off lead today :)

@PugInTheHouse hope he recovers quickly and isn't in pain for much longer.

Ah that's great news, we are back Tues which is his 2 day check (but 5 days due to the weekend). Hopefully he'll settle down soon. He's a very licky/itchy dog anyway and always licking his bits so it's driving him made lol.