ness Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 (edited) My nearly 13 month old BC was spayed last Tuesday and is recovering fine and is back to her usual feral self and me battling to keep her quiet (starting to ease up on that as of today) but I didn't ask the vet nurse when she was discharged what is the soonest I can take her swimming again. She said not to bath her for 10 days so does that mean after 10 days she should be fine to go back to the dog pool. She has dissolvable sutures so doesn't have to go back to have anything removed and I was told it could take up to 6 weeks for them to fully dissolve. I usually take my older girl to the pool once a week and my youngster tags along as well. Anybody know - I can always ring the clinic later today but thought I would ask on here in case somebody knows. Edited April 19, 2009 by ness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerraNik Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 When Jedi got desexed (yes, he's a boy, but he had an abdominal testicle, so similar wounds to Kenzie would have), the vet said I could take him to the beach the day he got his stitches out. He had removable stitches that were taken out on day 10... For dissolvable, I would assume that the wound would be healed by then and then it's just a matter of the stitches dissolving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~*Shell*~ Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I was told the same thing as Terranik. Zero had had one of his testicles kicked back up inside of him by his (very abusive) former owners so had a 7cm incision in his abdomen on top of the usual neuter incision. He was able to go into the water on the day he had his stitches out. His was longer than 10 days because of some problems he had with the incision "leaking" (he had what looked like very dilute blood coming out of it for a day when he popped one of the stitches) but I let him play in his paddling pool on the day they came out (about 15 days after desexing). I'd assume that if the incision is closed, then you shouldn't have a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 (edited) Ok might ask the vet nurse at the place I swim them - thanks for the responses though . Edited April 20, 2009 by ness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff'n'Toller Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Why did you bother asking me if you weren't going to take any notice?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Cos numpty me forgot what you said. Sorry things aren't staying put in my brain at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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