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Spalko - Getting Frustrated With Kitty!
I feel like I'm always asking for advice, but I'm at my wits end!
Delilah has now bit off all the glue for her declaws on her feet, and now has big scabs under her paws 
They look awful. ( I know that not everyone agrees with declawing, and now that I've done the research, I realize it was a mistake)
She does not seem in pain AT ALL.. she is trying to jump, pawing at things, and acting completely normal, except for the fact that she keeps biting the scabs off her paws and making them bleed a little, and creating a bigger scab.
She has also taken the sutures out of her incision for her spay. I can't believe her.
We are taking her in tomorrow to make sure that her incision is okay to be left the way it is.. its not open, bleeding or pussing, but she took them out a week before they were scheduled to be.
Do you have any advice for her paws? We both work during the day, so we can't stop her from licking.. and now that it has been a week since her surgeries, I would think that she would start healing on her paws..
Re: Spalko - Getting Frustrated With Kitty!
No worries about asking for advice, pets can be overwhelming at times
The stance on declawing is like anything else, some people say yes, others say no. We declaw all of our rescue kittens at the clinic and if done early enough there isn't a ton of pain associated with it because the bones/joints haven't fully fused so don't feel bad that you put her through this.
Ripping the glue out of her feet isn't completely uncommon, as it probably bothers her more than the actually surgery did. Some of the glue probably got into her hair on her feet and is pulling so it is annoying to her. We've had some kittens rip off the glue as soon as they wake up from sugery and there isn't a whole lot you can do for them. A cone can be placed on them and would probably be my suggestion for her but if everything appears to be healing properly, it might just be a waste of money.
Ripping the sutures out of her belly would make me more concerned than picking the scabs off her feet. We had a dog come in three times to be re-sutured after being spayed because she was so active (it was a boxer, so no surprise there!). Sometimes the edges of the incision will come a part so they can't heal probably which requires them to be restitched but if everything is healing properly, no bleeding, no swelling or if the area isn't warm then she should be healing just fine (without seeing it, it is hard to say but from what you've described it sounds like it is healing well).
Cats are really neurotic about being clean so the constant licking of the feet is her way of trying to be clean - first it was the glue bugging her, now it is the scabs. Like I said before, a cone might be the way to go with her but I would see what your vet says. They might not be too concerned about it if everything is healing nicely or they might put her on an antibiotic and give her a cone to wear. Do you have a crate you can leave her in to at least keep her semi-contained so she can't jump on things and stress her incision more. I would at least try that until you can get her to the vet.
I know it's hard right now but once she's fully healed, she'll be a perfectly happy little kitty again. It's just hard sometimes getting to that point and usually it's harder on the parents then it is the kitten. Just continue to love on her and she'll be just fine. Let me know what the vet said about her.
Thanks for all of your help.. you basically said what the vet did this morning.
She isn't having any pain from her declaw I guess, so she is picking at the scabs to get rid of them.
Her spay incision is almost completely healed. The vet didn't even put a liquid band aid on it, because it is healed together, which is great!
No cone for Delilah, just trying to keep her from jumping places.. which isn't easy!
Thanks again for your help, I REALLY appreciate it