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Updated on September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | English Setter | Male | neutered | 35 lbs
Hello. My dog was neutered 3-4 weeks ago and the stitches were healing fine. No issues. Today he went to a groomer and tonite we found him licking it and it’s seems a small part of the stitches came out. 1/2 of an inch. He is fine. We are just distracting him from licking it. We don’t have a cone. We put a little iodine on it and tried to dry it. We can take him to vet in the AM. Anything to do tonite? Thanks.
2 Answers

Answered By Angel Alvarado, LVT
Licensed Veterinary Technician
Published on October 20th, 2020
Answered By Dr. Massimo Orioles, DVM, Cert AVP, MRCVS
Veterinarian
Published on December 22nd, 2019
The wound would need ideally to be checked as it could get infected and this can delay the healing process.
This can wait until tomorrow morning. Ideally a buster collar should be used to avoid any further licking.
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