Today is Haru’s 16th day post spay surgery. After an infection of the wound with another round of oral antibiotics and anti-inflammation medicine, the wound now looks much better.
What really worked was us making sure that Haru didn’t tear off her post-op suit and plaster to lick the wound. The girls and I watched over her like a hawk. Desperate times called for desperate measures and I had to put a plastic Elizabethan cone on Haru despite her initially protesting. Haru had discovered a way to remove her post-on suit by turning her head to her back and pulling off the velcro on the suit, and then wriggles her way out of the suit! Then she would hide under the sofa, at the farthest end so that no one could catch her and she would lick off the double layer of plasters to lick her wound. That’s how determined and stubborn this feline is.
After an initial protest with loads of growling and hissing, Haru finally accepted the cone on her neck. In fact, she could even sleep with the plastic cone inside her cage overnight without attempting to remove it. She seems to know that her wound is infected and the cone and suit are for her to get well.
Cass found an old U-shaped neck pillow and put it on Haru’s box bed. Haru loves sleeping on the pillow with a thin blanket covering her. This managed to calm her and make her sleep almost all day. We take turns putting the box with Haru in it next to our desk so that we could watch her like a hawk all day. After doing this for several days, Haru’s wound was no longer seeping blood and no longer had an odor.
I ordered a softer recovery collar from Shopee for Haru and it arrived yesterday. It’s in the shape of an avocado and very comfy. As usual, Haru was super pissed with us when we put the avocado collar on her. After loads of growling, hissing and spitting, she settled down and has now accepted the collar😸 .
Haru looks so much like a newborn human baby in the romper and even smells like a baby. The girls are cooing over her and snapping tons of photos of her. In spite of that, we can’t wait to see Haru in her fluffy birthday suit again, with no more restrictions to her movements.
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Adorableness overload!!
Haru is lucky to have a family so devoted to her!
Hi Chris
We’re lucky to have found Haru too 🙂