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Hi,

While not exactly the same thing, around 10 days after his amputation, Tuxedo had a part of his incision pop open.  It had gotten infected, which now that I think back on it, not all that surprising as he refused to follow any of the vets instructions despite my best intentions.  As I mentioned, the area opened up around the same time as your kitty.  For Tuxedo, the area was debrided and a significant amount of decayed tissue was removed.  Despite being "healed" now he has what looks like a fist punch in fresh bread dough on his side.  It took a bit over 3 weeks to get to this point following the debriding.  During that time, 3 times a week, he went into the vet, was put under anesthesia, had the area cleaned and rebandaged using what they called wet to dry bandages (when applied the bandages were very wet), and treated with a cool laser to promote healing.  Because of the location, the bandages were stitched in place.  Small loops were stitched on his skin surrounding the area and the bandages used were held in place by what kind of resembled shoe laces going through the loops.  I remember thinking that the bandages were huge, not just in size, but well over 1" thick.

At that time I was very worried about my baby and it not healing.  I did way more Google searching than I probably should have done.  But one thing I did find during all of that searching was that sometimes for some pets, the incisions just take a very long while to heal.  Obviously, my medical knowledge is limited, but from the articles I found it seemed to me that there was no common reason why, just that it happens on occasions.

I hope that the staples do the trick for your baby!  It might also be worth checking out cool laser treatments to promote healing.  It truly works wonders and all things considered, it is not that expensive either, running around $50 per treatment.  Here is an article about it.  http://www.vete.....-Scarring/