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Spaying your cat - 6/14/2008 10:48:33 AM
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fluffmonkey
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Have you had your cat spayed?
I have female kitty how is this going to effect her afterwards?
What should I expect?
What do I need to do?
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/14/2008 10:58:36 AM
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Yes
My cat was groggy for half a day and then fine
The vet will give you instructions on how to take care of the stiches, but my cat only had like 3 or 4 and didn't bother them so she didn't need the cone on her head.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/14/2008 1:47:39 PM
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You need to call your vet and schedule the surgery. We need atleast a weeks notice with our heavy schedule.
Spay between 4 and 6 months for the best health benefits. That includes reducing/eliminating risk for mammary cancer, uterine and cervical cancers. BEFORE the first heat is the best window. After a heat cycle those hormones have been released and your risk for cancers increase with each heat cycle up to a certain point, then it plateau's and doesn't go up or down, it just is a risk.
When we spay there are no external sutures, they check in at 7:45am and go home around 3pm totally normal. Many owners call and thank us the next day for how 'normal' their cat was when they got home.
Recovery is normally a week - so we suggest limiting jumping/climbing/running as much as possible, but kittens can be crazy.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/14/2008 4:49:13 PM
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We've had 3 cats spayed at various times and a couple of males neutered. They settle down quite a bit, particular at the changing of seasons.
Female cats can go be available for males to come to them at any time of the year. Some vets think that the seasonal light changes have something to do with it.
We had a female cat who came home and within a day or so was ready to jump up on furniture and stuff. We thought she'd break open her stitches. However, medical technology allows for some very small incisions.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/14/2008 6:45:45 PM
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Larry - ours are less than the diameter of a dime. It's crazy. I've seen some inches long and that horrifies me. I'm very spoiled by my boss's surgery skills.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/14/2008 8:28:04 PM
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The first cat we had spayed was at a charity clinic. It was not free but comparatively cheap. The incision site looked kind of lumpy but it took and the cat had no problems. Thinking back on it now, I cringe. Compared to the it, the recent cat spaying looked very, very professional and barely noticeable.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/14/2008 11:34:53 PM
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Just don't let the kitty outside or let her lick her stitches. If she licks her stitches, buy a cone for her head. Her eyeballs might be shifty when you get her back and she may appear to be dizzy. Her head will kinda shake from side to side. She won't be like that if they keep her overnight though. She might get carsick on the way home too. My kitty barfed all over herself, luckily it was in a cardboard box, but I had to clean her up when we got home.
It mighta been because she was in a box and couldn't see though. I didn't have a kennel.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/15/2008 8:46:45 AM
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Have you had your cat spayed? Munchie was spayed by the RSPCA before I got her. If they hadn't done it, I would have.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/15/2008 6:37:08 PM
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Just don't let the kitty outside or let her lick her stitches. If she licks her stitches, buy a cone for her head. Her eyeballs might be shifty when you get her back and she may appear to be dizzy. Her head will kinda shake from side to side. She won't be like that if they keep her overnight though. She might get carsick on the way home too. My kitty barfed all over herself, luckily it was in a cardboard box, but I had to clean her up when we got home.
It mighta been because she was in a box and couldn't see though. I didn't have a kennel.
Our last cat came out of the vet's office without a cone. They said it really wasn't necessary but I insisted on one. The one they brought was too large to fit on her neck, she was a small cat. So cones aren't always used.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/15/2008 10:36:55 PM
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We don't ever send cones home.
We also don't send them home woozy or in anyway not their normal selves. We will keep them overnight if they aren't 100% back to normal after surgery. Easier all around.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/16/2008 1:00:46 AM
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I had both of my cats spayed the only major complication I had was that one of mine decided to take out her own stitches the day after I brought her home. It was no big deal (as I thought it was) because there is another lining below the skin. So I had to have sewed back up two times. I then nicknamed her rambo. they returned back to themselves completely about a week afterwards.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/16/2008 12:48:14 PM
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ORIGINAL: SteelMagnolia
Just don't let the kitty outside or let her lick her stitches. If she licks her stitches, buy a cone for her head. Her eyeballs might be shifty when you get her back and she may appear to be dizzy. Her head will kinda shake from side to side. She won't be like that if they keep her overnight though. She might get carsick on the way home too. My kitty barfed all over herself, luckily it was in a cardboard box, but I had to clean her up when we got home.
It mighta been because she was in a box and couldn't see though. I didn't have a kennel.
Our last cat came out of the vet's office without a cone. They said it really wasn't necessary but I insisted on one. The one they brought was too large to fit on her neck, she was a small cat. So cones aren't always used.
Yeah, most vet's offices don't send you home with a cone. My vet said if she started licking her stitches, then I ought to come back and borrow a cone from them.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/16/2008 3:13:12 PM
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Blue was spayed at 6 months. She had a cone, but she quickly figure out how to flip that thing right off. 
We just kept an eye on her with the licking, which she only tried once. Her stitches were larger though - might be cause she had it done about 12 years ago.  She had more issues with where they shaved her than the actual stitches. It drove her crazy...I ended up using some oatmeal cream on the shaved area so she wouldn't try to scratch it.
Mellowing out...naw, not much. I mean she was never really bad about anything, so I'm not sure. She's just always been our baby Blue, her temperment is more like a dog than cat. She likes showers, loves the rain, plays with a pinlight we have and sleeps under the bed.
Anyways, 12 years later...she's been a wonderful cat. She did gain some weight, but not all cat's do and she's lost 2 lbs. since we changed her food. So she's looking pretty good now.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/16/2008 3:42:00 PM
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Good job Erin with the super glue, it's cool stuff, I love seeing that used in place of sutures.
Call me a mean mommy but when my little girl had a reaction to the glue 2 days after surgery, we peeled it off and put 3 stitches in right quick and she didn't even flinch. I was shocked to say the least. She may have just been in shock from being brought BACK to the evil place but hey, she stayed still and it was over and done with.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/17/2008 5:43:54 PM
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Today my kitty got spayed today, I know she was sad and parnoid this morning when I took her and when I came to pick her up the lady said she was not happy kitty... and Im sure they had hard time trying to get her in her cage....when I got her home she was still druged up and was stumbling all over place and looks blimic and now she is hiding under my bed...They gave her the internal disloving kind of stitches and glue... Price wasnt to bad she need 2 shots and so it all ended up being 69 verse 200 at near by vets...and that was just for spay... but I went to an animal clinic.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/18/2008 12:00:19 PM
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Rukia is doing better although moving slow....
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/18/2008 4:40:41 PM
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Speaking of neutering...this is THE funniest cartoon
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/19/2008 7:47:41 PM
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Unless you are raising/showing/professionally breed show-quality cats, I think EVERY cat should be speutered. Yeah, but then there'd come a point that we'd run out of ordinary kitties.
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RE: Spaying your cat - 6/20/2008 11:00:29 AM
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How long did it take you cat to heal? How long before they were jumping and climbing agian?
Since my cat had the internal stitches and glue, do I need to have her checked out after 10 days?
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