Hello,
Our 10 month old cat has just been spayed. She came back home at 5 pm yesterday and she has already pulled off her neck cone. I cannot get it back on. She keeps hiding from me, in almost unaccesible places, so I have not been able to take a good look at her wound or get the cone back on.
I am just leaving her to sleep under the television stand at the moment, but I have prepared some food with painkiller (from the vet) on it. I am quite scared that she will pull out the stiches is I do not get the cone on soon. However, when i approach her, she runs off and jumps on things and I am scared she will damage herself.
Is there any advice? Is this behaviour normal? She is normally a friendly but slightly timid cat.
Incidentally, the vet old me that there were abnormalities in the development of her uterus, which meant one side was significantly immature. He thinks this could be a result of the inbreeding from the feral community that our cat came from. I am now wondering if we have put the poor cat through a traumatic and painful experience for no reason because she may well have been sterile. Ah well...