Spay - Stitches vs. Glue

[AbbeyRoad]

So I'm a little late in my own case since Abbey was just spayed yesterday, but our vet used stitches and I know a lot of her doggy friends' vets used glue, so I was just wondering what are the pros and cons between the two?

 

[RolenKisses]

I've never heard of using glue! When Rolen was neutered, our vet used stitches, so I can't really compare the two. I'll be interested to read what others have to say!

 

[calimomma]

Despite all of our best efforts, and sedating meds, Abbi managed to pop her stitches after her spay. So off to the vet we went and he glued the incision site. A day later, we were back at the vet again because it wasn't working. So he finally had to use staples to keep the incision closed. One of which she managed to pop as well. But after all of that, you can barely see her scar on her white belly! appicon

So while that's not really a pro v. con, it's just our story.

 

[atlasmom911]

When Sydney was spayed she had bright purple stitches. When my daughters dog was spayed her vet used glue.

 

[AbbeyRoad]

Yeah, Abbey's are bright blue. They kind of caught me off guard for a second.

 

[BetsyB]

The shelter where we adopted Angus from used what the vet called a "rip 'em & stick 'em" method. Apparently the quickly cut him open, removed his testicles and glued him back shut with super glue! The shelter admitted that's their "standard practice" after I called. Angus had kennel cough when we brought him home, but before it's determined that's what it was, my vet wanted to know if the shelter had inserted a breathing tube during the surgery thinking that may have aggravated his trachea and that could be the reason for his cough and irritation. I called and was told they don't use anything like that, just make the incision and glue them up.
Angus had a lot of swelling and irritation at the site...
When we had Mackensie spayed at our normal vet, they used stitches and she had no problem, although after she healed, the area apparently healed too tightly and she ended up with a 4 inch long chapped and raw area where the scar was. It's only since we started feeding raw that the area has healed completely and now looks good as new!