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Halas wears his cone of shame when I'm at work.  I was home for a long lunch today, just to give him a break from his cone.  I put it back on before I left, and went back to work.  I got home about 30 minutes ago to this:

The stitches are gone from this one on his left side, and the one on his right hip.  The right hip is pretty much closed up, so I'm not too worried about that one.  But, as you can see, this one is an open wound.  And it's deep.  My vet had closed about 15 minutes before I got home, so I called the ER vet.  They said it should be fine for tonight, since the surgery was 5 days ago, but I should get him to his regular vet first thing tomorrow.  I will definitely do that tomorrow as soon as they open, but what about tonight?  I don't see how this big, open wound is going to be ok overnight.  Maybe they are assuming that it's mostly closed up, but I tried to explain that this one WAS NOT closed up.  I even said I could email a picture of it to them.  Is this really something that looks like it will be ok overnight?!  I asked if I should at least put Polysporin and a bandage over it, but they said no.  WTD?!

And he did still have his cone on when I got home, which means he did all of this between 12:30 - 5:45 today while working around his cone.  And based on the fact that the other side is practically closed up, I think he's been messing with this one on his left side at other times, too, when I've been at work.  The one on his groin still has stitches, and doesn't look like he's bothered it, so at least the cone worked for that one.

This is grossing me out, and I'm really worried about it being OK overnight.  Any advice?  Call the ER vet back and explain it again? Put some Polysporin and a big bandage over it?  Leave it alone?

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Yep! I just put his Bears collar on last night.

 So happy to read he is all fixed up and things are much better!  

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