Chronic Spay Scar Opening?

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Our rescued 2 year old Hound Mix was spayed early November 2014, early January 2015 her spay scar was freshly bleeding and scabbing so she was on activity restriction and Clavamox for 2 weeks. Now early Feb same thing but less severe. Her spay scar is slightly scabbing again and she's got some (it's not medically pus) clear-pus looking liquid seeping from the opening. I have noticed lumps and research has told me those are the deeper stitches still heeling and/or making a knot in her belly but I can't find someone who's had a chronic case of spay-scar open-itis and this is getting annoying!

Our daily activity consists of AT MOST 4mi walking, 1 mi running, 1 hr dog park playing. She loves every second of it, rarely tired.
Thank you!
 
I did vaguely wonder why the OP is asking on here rather than an American dog site, not that it is relevant to whether the poor dog has seen a vet recently or not
 
She was a rescue so the original surgery was probably done by a recently graduated vet as many humane society's do. Our vet saw her the first time her scar was opening up and recommended our treatment plan of low activity, antibiotics, and no licking.

Now that it's happening again I can't find any thread, post, comment, ask jeeves, google, bing, wikipedia where someone talks about this. I tend to do research before panicking and rushing to the vet, just to gather my information-not as a veterinary replacement. I can start adding "u"s to some of my words and change where I say I live, but I turned to Horse and Hound for my Hound's sake. Didn't mean to crash your tea party, light-hearted pun intended.
 
So you give your dog an hours free play time in the park, this could be your problem, you are not giving it chance to heal, my male Dobermann had a cruciate op done in early July and from the start he was a nightmare, I couldnt keep a cone on him, he kept getting it off and getting at the op site opening it up. I bandaged all his legs and sprayed them in bitter apple but it didnt stop him, I had him in a doggy onsie and again it didnt work, my vets and I were at our wits end. Luckily a friend recommended I put him in a harness and tie his cone to that, it worked and finally the op site started to heal, I was terrified he would get an infection in it before. He was on lead exercise for 12 weeks and for a high energy dog like a Dobermann it was very difficult to keep him sane and not to do anything silly.

If your dog is leaking then there is something very wrong, its not a case of panicking and running to the vet, how would you feel if by your lack of seeking vets help you put your dogs life in danger. I dont take my dogs to the vet for every little thing but I know enough to know when they need to go, if this was my dog I would be seeking vets help.
 
Could she be allergic to the stitches? It happened to my sister's cat and the Vet had to open her up again, take the stitches out and then replace them with a different thread.
 
Firstly im not a vet. How are the wound edges looking? with the time that has passed its could be possible that the edges have partially healed without knitting together properly? It might be a case of she needs to be cut again to allow exposure of fresh tissue to allow the wound to heal properly?
 
When my terrier pup was castrated, I was advised 10 minutes walking on a lead a few times a day for first five days and then increase it gradually. At the end of two weeks he was allowed off lead and back to normal exercise. He was not meant to jump up, go up stairs, get up on furniture or any running until the two weeks were up.

As the days went by it got increasingly difficult to sustain and I admit to letting him have a run off lead at the end of the first week. The furniture and stairs took a battering as well, but maybe he just healed quickly. I kept his plastic bucket collar thing on for the entire two weeks so the wound was left alone.

As i understand it, people heal at different rates.

I am just wondering what your 1 hour in the playing in the park constitutes. It certainly sounds more exciting than my chap was prescribed! Anyway, I hope it heals up soon as you will be paying for your vet's vacation at this rate!
 
I appreciate everyone's thoughts and experiences to help.

Spoke to the Humane Society where her original spay was done to try and gather more information about her procedure and express some concern around some of possibilities I've read. Said her surgery went well, she had glue on the outside, dissolvable stitches on the inside and they encouraged me to go back to the vet that saw her a month ago for this same reason and ask for more glue to be placed on the outside and not get her wet! They were shocked that wasn't what the vet did first, and that the vet never mentioned getting her wet would unseal the glue. We thought it was so far down her recovery that wasn't necessary anymore.

To reply to some inquires, her dog park play consists of 1-4 other medium-larger dogs who like to run, romp, wrestle, and until we correct them- eat the dirt and drink from the natural puddles from the rain.

The edges of her scar look great, they seem sealed and puckered but during these "episodes" there was some scabbing and oozing.

Outcome: Vet WILL be putting glue on it, and we'll be switching vets.
 
I would stop the dog park play until the wound has healed fully. Running and wrestling are probably the worst thing she could be doing as it will be twisting the scar. The bitches I have had spayed in recent years have had dissolvable stitches and vet has always been very definite about keeping them quiet. I know your bitch is a while on from the actual surgery but I think you are best treating her as if she has just been spayed.
 
My greyhound had something similar sounding. It wss the internal, dissolvable stitches being walled off and forced out by her body where they hadn't dissolved fully.
 
My JRT had something similar and ended up having all the internal sutures removed after 3 months and then closed with a different material internally with clips to the skin externally. This solved the problem completely. She had a weeping (clear fluid) inflamed scar for some weeks even after restricted excercise and 2 courses of antibiotics. This was when she was 2 years old. She is now 8 and has had no further problems at all.
 
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