I had Baxter neutered 7 days ago and I'm just wondering if he's healing as he should be, I've tried to compare to pics online and I really don't know what I'm looking for, the healthy post op pics I've seen look so different than him so it's making me nervous, I've never had a dog neutered so I'm a little paranoid. I was hoping some of the more experienced members could take a look at the pics and tell me if it looks okay or not. There's no odor or discharge, and I've been giving him amoxicillin 2 x per day along with neosporin 1-2 times per day as advised by my vet.I was not given an e-collar but he doesn't lick or bother with it much unless I put the neosporin on and in that case I am there to correct him. My vet used stainless steel sutures and I am supposed to return to have them removed on day 10.
Forgot to mention he is 1 year and 9 months old ,not sure if that makes a difference

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I recently had my little man done and his incision was never open like that. He had stitches and by day 7 was almost totally healed up. If you've only got 3 days to wait until yo take him back for suture removal i would just wait and see what the vet says then.

To me it looks like the incision didn't get closed all the way, and that spot is a scab. Does he sleep with you at night? My Dobe had surgery recently and would lay in her crate at night and lick her sutures. Pulled about half out. But then again if it isn't hot and no puss you should be okay. Call the vet and see if you can have them take a look.

It's just my opinion and I tend to overreact, and I don't have boys but I'm not sure about the puffy left side on the close-up on day 7. Unless it is difficult for you to take him in for a look, I doubt your vet would charge you for the extra check and you would be safer than sorry.

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He's licked out the sutures. I see no sutures at all. It looks like it's healing up ok. I would stop the neosporin as he's licking and it's not good for him to ingest it. Sherman licked a tiny bit of his open, but it healed up just fine.

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Thank you Jan for the wonderful siggy!

Bianca- yeah he sleeps with me, and no hotness or puss

svdreamer-The sutures are there, if you look closely in my first day 7 photo you can see one of them towards the bottom right of the incision..he has 2 of these...

lulusmom- i googled about the puffyness and my research says this is due to him being active and running around so his immune system is overactive in healing him

At this stage there's nothing to do, they can't re-stitch at this late date. Since he is on antibiotics already, just wait until the 10 day check-up.

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Thank you Jan for the wonderful siggy!

I agree. If there is an explanation for the puffiness, and he is on antibiotic, and as SVDreamer said they will not resuture now--I don't think there would be any reason not to wait until the 10 day appointment.

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