My dog just got neutered this past friday?

Question

They sent him home with an e-collar and he is so miserable in it! When I am home with him I take it off but when I can't be home or it's night time and i'm sleeping I keep it on him because I don't want him to chew his stitches. It's breaking my heart because I can see how unhappy and uncomfortable he is :( How long do they usually have to wear the collars after surgery?

Answer 1

They all look miserable in them he will actually get used to it  

Answer 2

About 5-10 days.

Answer 3

He should wear the collar until the vet says it's okay to remove it.

Dogs tend to constantly l**k where they are hurt or itch.

This can cause a serious infection. It's better to be safe, than sorry.

Answer 4

For my siberian husky it was about like between 5 and 10 days.

Answer 5

i know it does...my dog was so scared of the collar....so i took it off and instead put a shirt on her chich covered the would but still left place to pee ....i couldnt watch her suffer in that collar...it took 10 days for everything to heal and we went to take the stitches off in 10 days.....try to put a shirt on him which will protect the wound from him l*****g it (dont put bandages on the wound as it needs to breathe inorder to heal )

Answer 6

hi,

Neutering sterilizes a male dog so he's incapable of parenting puppies. Many, many wonderful health and behavioral effects occur because he's undergone "the big snip."

It's a simple surgery, far more so than a spay. Under anesthesia, an incision is made in front of the s*****m, and then the testicles are removed through that incision. The stalks of the testicles are cut. Sometimes the incision needs stitches.

here's more info:

http://dogtime.com/neutering-your-male.h...

hope this helps,

Answer 7

this past Friday?  As in a week ago?

Look at the incision site.. does it appear to be pretty well healed?  If so, then take the silly lampshade off.

It was to prevent him from messing with the incision until it healed.  I have never had to use one of those things on any of my pets..  I personally wouldnt have bothered to use it unless you saw that he was fussing with the incision.

Answer 8

I've never heard of a vet putting one of those collars on a dog after spay/neuter.  Interesting.  I had my dogs spayed and neutered last month.  No collars.  I just tried to keep an eye on things to make sure they were okay.  Tank, my male, did end up taking out his own stitches, but not until time to do so.  I wonder how he knew.  Trouble, the female, I took hers out.

Answer 9

Is your dog likely to be left on his own during the time he is healing?  If not take the thing off.  I have Bassets and what with being low to the ground and all that, wearing an E-collar is virtually an impossibility, and frankly it frightened them.  Yes, he might l**k at the wound but my experience with castrated dogs is they don't normally do this and if they do, it's only towards the end of the healing, when it starts itching.  This incision is not likely to be big (?) so, apart from infection (and dogs have good resistence to infection if they are basically healthy), even if he manages to drag one stitch out (it happens!) it's not a major disaster.  If he's going to be left on his own, you might have to harden your heart, and leave it on.  

Stitches normally come out after 10 days  - did your vet use soluable, in which case, they will 'go' without needing to be taken out.

And btw - my castrates/spays have never been given a collar to wear - but then my vet at the time knew me!!!