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My 6 month old puppy Olive was spayed on Friday May 8th. Last night (day 5 post-op), we noticed that a part of her incision (about half an inch in length) had opened. We brought her to the vet shortly after we noticed and they cleaned up her incision and glued the opened edges back together.

When we first looked at her incision on Friday, we noticed that there were two parts (one at the top of the incision and one at the bottom) had oozed blood and a scab was starting to form. We didn’t worry about it and kept an eye on her incision every day. I kept a close eye on the top scab because it looked a bit odd to me but again, didn’t worry too much until last night when we saw it had opened. The part that had opened was exactly where the top scab was. The scab was on one edge of the opening and the other was clear.

We’ve been wondering what could have caused the incision to open like it did. We have been very vigilant about keeping her calm, not jumping, and not running. She never yelped in pain to indicate that maybe she had moved weird and the incision opened.

It felt as if the vet was putting the blame on us. This might honestly just be my impression or I may be mixing my emotions of guilt in their questions and suggestions of what might have happened. I have really loved the care that the vet has given Olive so far so I think it’s just my emotions. I’ve been overthinking this whole situation and I’m wondering if this can randomly happen without the dog doing anything physically to make the incision open? Is this just bad luck?

My 6 month old puppy got spayed on Friday (May 8) and we’re on day 3 post-op. Recovery is going pretty well. She’s taking her medication easily, is eating well, and her bodily functions have been great.

I’m not worried about her physical recovery. I’m worried about keeping her entertained during the rest of the 14 days. I know this is quite common but since I work from home full time, my anxiety is spiking. I’ve prepared some lick mats and I have different chews.

I’ve always had anxiety around making sure she has enough enrichment. Probably because the dog trainer we had, had some pretty unrealistic expectations when it came to enrichment. My anxiety has gotten to the point where I have a hard time concentrating on work if Olive is awake. I keep thinking I need to be doing something. In reality, I know she needs to learn to entertain herself and be bored sometimes. The worst part is that she is totally fine with not doing anything and just looking out the patio door. The issue is me 😂

I would love to hear about how much entertainment is expected of me during these next couple of weeks. I’d also love to know if anyone else has dealt with this type of anxiety…