Do you suppose a tiny bit of a mild sedative would help?  Just enough to
slow her down a little?  I hate to do that to them, but sometimes (like
with some people) a bit of physician induced mellowness is called for.

- Denise who would love for Brenna to have a little more natural
mellowness to ease her stressed-out personality (no, sweetie, that noise
is the clothes washer - just like the last 1,500 times it startled
you...sigh)

What a little monkey!

Theresa
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She sounds like a real brat cat!  She reminds me of the way Nanki-Poo
fought the appetite stimulants.  You'd have thought we were trying to
poison him!  All I can say is, a cat with that much fight in her (or
him) is going to fight to recover from anything.

--
Joy

Didn't someone yesterday post that calico's can be a bit "single minded?"
It sure fits Molly.

Knock it off Chatter.  Helen could use a bit of a break.

Jo

Will send heartfelt purrs that the little imp will leave her wound alone.
Perhaps  TED could give her a sedative for a few days.  It must hurt.  MLB

Reminds me of the Tonkinese cat I had a few years ago (Cheyanne) she had to
have a Caesarean, every day (and twice in one day) I had to take her back to
the vet to be re-stitched.

I have never been a fan of the E collar but decided on the second trip back
to the vet to give it a go, by the time I had driven the 15 minutes home
from the vet she had it off!!
The wound eventually healed.

Lois

You have my complete sympathies, Helen!  She sounds extremely smart.  Get
some rest -- purrs for you, and for Chatter, although I think you need them
more than she does!
Christine

In <575fabc293d50135e940953480e604fc.76411@mygate.mailgate.org>,
Helen Miles <helen.miles@virgin.net> shouted to everyone in earshot,

[snip more post-spay woes]

ugh, that's got to be really frustrating.  I hope Chatter can get
with the program and let you get your blood pressure down just a
little.

my own spay tale: I had Grizzly and Buck spayed almost two years ago
at the same time.  each had a belly incision with four sutures.
didn't have them home for half an hour and each had a suture out
already.  dash back to the vet to pick up some collars.  that
generally took care of them, though each managed to pull another
stitch over the next few days.  (luckily, no drastic measures were
needed--the remaining stitches held the incisions until they healed
fully.)  they couldn't eat with the collars on, so I had them off for
that, and I'd try to give them some "free time" to play around
(supervised) afterwards as well.  what was the worst for me was when I
had to leave them unsupervised for whatever reason and put the collars
back on, and they just looked so horribly sad about that.  and all the
while, Jimmer was stressing out about the new smells they had brought
home from the vet--he didn't recognise them any more, I guess, so he
did the old "hiss, run, and hide" thing for about a week.

interestingly, though, Buck and I started a really nice routine during
that time--it's just about my favourite part of the day.  after I
shower and brush my teeth in the morning, she squeals at me until I
finish up and go to my room to get dressed.  she leads me in there,
squealing all the way (the squealing would be meowing if she could do
it properly), and leaps up on my bed.  then she rubs all over me while
I put my socks on and even lets me pick her up a little, and when I'm
standing next to my bed after I've put my pants on, she puts her front
paws up on me and tries to get her face as close to mine as she can
(which isn't that close, as I'm over 6' tall and she's tiny, but I of
course bend down for her).

Jeff

I don't know if this is applicable, but once upon a time my mother had two
cats who needed to be neutered and they were both very rambunctious so I
suggested getting a cage to keep them in after their surgery. My reasoning
was that that would probably keep them subdued. It worked beautifully, as
they tended to lay still and neither one was ever agitated and neither one
did anything to their stitches. I have no idea if this works generally but
it sure worked fine on those two cats. The cage wasn't cheap, though.

Waffles will not keep an E-collar on either. When she had her eye removed, she
had the e-collar off in less than a minute and she pulled out one of the
stitches in her eye. Lovely... not.
Thankfully she didn't mess with her stitches when she got speyed.

Would a bandage completely wrapped round Chatter's body help??

Cheers, helen s

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Lots of purrs and best wishes for Chatter to leave her wound alone from now
on, and gentle calming hugs for you, Helen, for taking such good care of
her,

Sympathetic sedating purrs to you both.

No helpful hints I'm afraid, just overwhelming relief that my 3 boys
aren't that difficult :-)

Having said which, I'm now preparing for the inevitable.

Best wishes

Gordon & the TT

Honey, *all* calicos are self-opinionated and have attitude!  What
you've got is, to your regret and delight, completely normal!

Please give that wicked miss a kiss on the top of her furry head from
me!

Tish