The next page is kind of gruesome.... it has pictures of Spud's surgical wounds that he promptly tore his dissolvable stitches out, then wouldn't quit messing with them. I finally caught him, put neosporin on them, HELD him for over twenty minutes, then spent another twenty with a thin dowel inserted through the expanded metal mesh tank top to separate his mouth from his wounds when he bent down to worry them. He got so he'd look for that dowel, then hope it wasn't looking and duck furtively. Even after cleaning himself...paws on face and upper chest, then dart for the bottom. After that, he was picked up again, smeared again, and given a reiki treatment. Wiggly him sat still for his reiki. He slowed down on how much he bothered the bottom and he eventually slept.

I suggest you take the link below back to the Index Page or back up, if you do not want to see the last page and the pretty gruesome looking pictures of the wounds. *I*have*warned*you* , I posted them for those that may have this done to their gerbil and how it may look if the patient is 'stupid' and _won't_ leave the stitches alone.