Well I had my sweet maxine spayed on tuesday. The vet said that she needed to be leash walked and no playing with other dogs for 10 days(until she gets her stiches out). Of course now on day 5 shes acting 100 percent. i take her for some decent size walks on the leash but she has tons of energy. Most people Ive talked to said they let there dogs run after a couple of days but I dont want any complications. Well I guess Im just venting. I cant wait till she can play again for her and my sanity
Deeppowder
I just had Chloe spayed on Nov. 14th, she got her metal stitches out this past Tuesday. On Nov 14th when I picked her up after the spay they said the same thing your vet told you.......don't let her play, run and I would have to take her out on a leash EVERY time she went to potty! What???!! I thought they surely were sniffing some kind of anesthetic in the back there.:lol-sign: Chloe was 4 1/2 months old at the time, she goes out upteen times a day AND I have a 75 lbs male (Bailey, 20 months old) in the house too. This was just NOT going to be an easy thing to do. The first day she got home that late afternoon, she slept. I took her out on a leash that first night and once the next morning. When she awoke the next morning after the spay, she was ready to play, play, play just like nothing had been done to her. I let her play with Bailey and made sure they didn't get too rough, I kept an eye on her stitches for swelling or any of them coming loose, she was fine.
I would have gone insane for 10-14 days of not letting her play or go out to potty by herself. I called the vet and said "hey, she's all wound up and ready to play and I've let her do that .....etc, etc." Vet told me that those instructions are just what every vet tells the patients owners, standard instructions. He said if she wants to play let her, if she wants to go out to potty on her own, let her just make certain the area is kept clean is all. Whew, was I GLAD! Both my dogs go to doggie daycare 2 days a week with lots of other dogs and puppies, Chloe and Bailey went back to "school" one week after Chloe had her spay and she had the stitches in for another week. She's fine. She did have laser spay but the vet didn't differentiate on the instructions for either laser or traditional spays.