Gordy Got Neutered......Complications :( UPDATED :)

[Imp]

Glad to hear it.

Imp

 

[silkieone]

Hello All.

I wanted to say I hope your boy will be ok,I was a Vet tech/surgical asst for 17 years and mostly the only problems I saw
were male dog scrotums swelling and then having to be ablated or removing the the scrotal sac.
Most Hospitals will use Ice packs on the surgical area for a while when the dog is still asleep and helps with swelling of the incesion site and if the doctor uses a subcuticular closure which is to say that the sutures in the skin will be just below the skin the pet won't have sutures to stick them and that of course brings attention to the area.

As to neutering tom cats,leaving the incesion area open is not a new thing,as I said i was in the field for 17 years and that is the only way that was done. It seems that cats don't mess with it when it is done that way.

They do the same thing to stallions out in the field,they sedate the horse and then cut the scrotum and use the emasculators to crush the cords and then cut them out and they do not suture the incesion at all and the same thing happens with calves.
I know it sounds brutal but they are sedated and don't really know what is going on and I can attest to this as I also assisted with farm calls and saw the above many times .

May I make a suggestion? those of you that are planning on having your pet spayed or neutered ask your vet to use a cosmetic closure and that means that the absorbing suture will be just below the skin and dosen't seem to cause the pet any discomfort and they usually leave the area alone. That is for Dogs male and female, the male dog can also have a cosmetic closure with his procedure.

Hope as up front as the above was that it helps you to make a better educated decision when you do spay or neuter and talking to your Vet about can they do the closure that way. It doesn't hurt to ask.

By the way female cats can also have a cosmetic closure and they usually leave the area alone since there isn't any nylon suture to poke at their skin when they either lay down or sit down.

It also sounds like he may have a tracking abcess that may have opened in a hole from his licking and introducing bacteria into the wound or surgical area.

I again wish you well and that your boy recovers quickly.

Linda (Silkieone)

 

[19hhbelgian]

Leaving the males "open" is nothing new - that's what they do for horses. Of course I only get colts gelded when it's cool-cold out to help with clotting and there are no bugs when the weather is cold - they always heal up just fine, and you don't have to remove stitches or use a "collar of shame" as the OP put it

On the other hand, I wouldn't want any of my dogs or cats done this way simply because it is messier than having stitches. Glad to hear your boy isn't as bad off as you thought! I dread getting any surgeries done on my animals - scares the heck out of me! I used a spay/neuter clinic to get our female husky spayed this past fall. They only charged me $90 and $25 for the microchip. WAY cheaper than the vets $400-$500 quote

We had no issues and it saved us a bunch of money. They do spay/neutering for the greyhound rescues though, so it's not simply a "cheap vet".

 

[lockedhearts]

Gordy is back to just about normal. He is bugging me all the time....LOL
He is eating well and the "wound" is healing nicely.

 

[Penturner]

Leaving a neuter incision open is nothing new. I worked as an assistant in a vet hospital 30 years ago. we had a steady clientele of people bringing their dogs in from the "Low Cost/ No Service" Clinics. Left wide open and bleeding. The real fun part about it is they had just been under anesthetic and we where not able to knock them out again. It was my job to hold the dog down while the vet sewed them up without so much as a local. It got so bad I finally told the vet he either had to start charging an extra $20 for me to hold the dog or get the owners to do it. I paid off my first car with that $20 per dog surcharge.

 

[lockedhearts]

Gordy was not left open, he had stitches, the complications were created by Gordy not leaving things alone. After speaking to my vet, apparently larger dogs with pendulous swinging parts tend to have more issues unless the empty swinging parts are removed along with he surgery. In a Low Cost Clinic, they simply do the surgery. My other Dog, a Jack Russell is fine, he was neutered at the same time.
But it only cost me $55 to have Gordy, a 100 lb dog neutered. Even adding the $40 I spent at my vet that is way less than what a regular vet would have cost just for the neuter.

 

[texascowboy1979]

I imagine they shaved him down there.. Please keep me posed as to when his hair comes back to normal..

Champ... my dad's dog, who kills my chickens, very rarely... will be loosing his man hood on the 18th... my dad came to the decision because he feels that Champ will calm down, and my father also wants to buy a female German Shepard to breed with my Male German Shepard, and my dad does not want to pen up Champ... so champ has to say good bye to his boys...

Champs on his last life line... one more chicken... and he's toste...

 

[dntd]

My dogh has a hareditary blood clotting issue. Sh ebarely made it though the exam in order to get her fixed. The incision refused he heal he body just hated the stiches. In the end as a last ditch efford to heal it we put tea tree oil on the wound to get the infection out, worked wonders. I guess some pets just don't do well under the knife.

 

[Crazyland]

This is why it is important to have a blood work up prior to surgery. A few friends can not spay their girls do to this disorder. Another friend lost her pup right after surgery.