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Originally Posted by dandysmom
Poor wee girlie, hope she's feeling a lot better tomorrow.
I've often wondered why more vets don't use the dissolving stitches. Someone ask the next time that they're at the vets? PL?
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We do sometimes use dissolvable sutures, especially in feral cats that have been trapped for neutering. These sutures can be more fiddly and time consuming to place so to avoid a longer anaesthetic some vets will opt to put the normal skin sutures in. It can come down to the vet's personal preference, sometimes too there is just too much 'stuff' under the skin which seems to delay healing in individual cases (this is more something I've seen rather than proven scientifically)
Imogen had a midline incision when she was spayed, I took her collar off when I went home for lunch one day and she managed to pull 2 stitches out in 2 seconds flat!
I was able to hold her while the vet popped in some surgical staples.
Glad Breagh is doing ok now though x
