salt and pepper got spayed, any suggestions for keeping them relaxed and calm?

[salt&pepper´smommy]

Please, they will be really appreciated. They both got spayed today, they are doing well, a little tired and scared, salt mostly. They have their meds and I've been keeping an eye on the wound, they have 2 stiches. But they want me to have them in my arms and out of their kennel, they want to jump and everything, and I'm having a hard time calming them down. I know they're scared and sore and I have to be extra pacient with both, but I'm afraid they'll open up their wound or something, what should I do to calm them down?

[nouri]

Good to hear that. It's a very good idea. I'd like to do the same thing for our cats since I don't think I've much time to take care of young kittens. In fact one of our kittens is dying.

BTW, is it cheap to get the cats spayed there? Thanx.

[salt&pepper´smommy]

Good to hear that. It's a very good idea. I'd like to do the same thing for our kittens since I don't think I've much time to take care of young kittens. In fact one of our kittens is dying.

BTW, is it cheap to get the cats spayed there? Thanx.

Well, I got them spayed at a free clinic hosted by the Give life association/fundation, I don't remember exactly. Salt & Pepper's vet is a member, he told me about it. He got to operate on Pepper, very good work, a week after she almost had no scar, and three days after her stitches were removed no evidence of a surgery on her belly, only a very big bald spot she has. Salt had a little mishap, first with the anestesia, it was a bit to strong for her, and one of the student vet voluntiers operated on her and one of her inside stitches was too long and with the wrong kind of surgical thread, so it was scrapping her skin from the inside, that's why she was fuzzy. As soon as I saw that salt was not healing like Pepper I asked the vet, I took her three days after when I saw that her belly was a bit swolen, he opened her again, fix the stitch, and closed the wound as if it was plastic surgery, there's no evidence of the surgery on Salt now. The day after this, Salt was her old self again, in the morning she went straight to her food, and started begging me for attention, as she usually does. I do recomend this kind of clinics, but one has to be carefull with the staff's credentials, I was not aware that students were spaying, I was told that they only neutured the males. When I took Salt to the vet he told me that due to the lack of doctors they had to rely on students to get all the 116 registered pets into surgery as soon as posible. He only charged me for the anestisia the second time, and was less strong that the first time. There was no hangover for Salt the second time around.

Btw I hope that kitten makes it.

[nouri]

Thanx for sharing. Actually we've never spayed or neutered our cats before. The fact is - we've a few cats in the house. We've 4 adult cats, a kitten & 3 very small kittens. I don't think the small kitten can make it. She's dying. There's nothing I can do abt her anymore.

[Paul79UF]

I worked part time at a vet's office in high school. I think the vet techs used to swaddle the cats like a human infant to keep them from lashing around as they came off the anesthesia.