Step by Step How to Care for a Dog After Surgery

Your dog can be heartbreaking when it comes home after surgery. Your pet will need some TLC, but it is also important for you to listen carefully to the vet's instructions and keep your beloved dog calm.



Below are the steps for you about what you need to do and how to care for a dog after surgery.

How to Care for a Dog After Surgery:

1. Listen carefully to the vet's instructions. Vets will give you a printed list of instructions for taking care of your pets and dog after surgery. Some others are less formal, and discuss these steps with you in the vets clinic. Take notes, and don't be afraid. All vets think your dog is like your baby, and you need to know how to care for your dogs after surgery.
2. You have to keep your dog calm when you get home. It is extremely difficult if you have another dog, who loves to play. But you can easily solve this problem by taking your healing dog outside on a leash. You may not allowing your dogs to run around out of your home. This steps are recommended by vets for up to a week. Let your dogs go arround after few days when your dogs feel calm. Just watch your dog and its incision carefully.
3. You need to provide your dogs a comfortable place for your dog to take a sleep. The most important is in the first night when you get your dogs home from surgery.
4. You may need to purchase an e-collar if your dog will be able to lick or they able to scratch its stitches. Most dogs get used to them after a few hours, but they usually hate e-collar. E-collar is important that your dog does not bother his incision until it heals.
5. Only use a warm wash cloth for wiping away dried blood on your dog's body, and use it to help with itching throughout the week.
6. Give your dog antibiotics if the vet gave you a pets prescription. Give it even if your dog seems healed.
7. Feed your dog very little in the firts night it comes home from surgery. The recomendation is to give your dog just a little dry food.

May those steps help you.