Mishmish is 13 days post-op and she’ll remove the soft collar tomorrow!
The vet said he doesn’t recommend the spay suit as the sutures should breathe and so that I could put an antibiotic ointment on her sutures twice a day (as of 3 days ago, I only have to put it once a day).
I expected her to hate the cone (she did for the first 2 hours) and I was so so so worried but now she loves resting her head on it to sleep and cleans it as if it’s part of her body!
She can also eat and drink with the cone on with no problems.
The only thing is she was acting normal and was active so she developed a lump near the surgery site which the vet confirmed was normal for active cats, however 3 days ago, I went so he could drain it with a syringe (she felt zero pain and made no reaction to the syringe). Draining it was optional and he only did it as he could tell I was anxious about it but he said it would have gone away on its own in a couple of weeks.
Hope this helps someone about to spay their cat!