Exploratory surgery incision

Hello vets, My bulldog had exploratory surgery a week ago on Wednesday. He’s been doing really well, but just wanted to make sure his incision looks like it’s healing ok?

Hello - this photo has arrived completely out of context so my first comment - boringly, possibly disappointingly but absolutely essentially - has to be that I cannot conduct post op checks on someone else's patient online.  The professional understanding that makes it bad practise, is fuelled by the many practical reasons for this; first, that if this patient had an infection coming on, was bleeding into the abdomen, had a space occuying lesion in there, eg abdominal fluid, had inappropriate levels of pain (not always obvious) or even had a pyrexia.... then I would be in no position to pick any of these things up and my interference could delay its detection.  For that reason, my basic reccommendation is to see your vet for all post-op checks and to please be very clear that my comments are no substitute.   Sometimes, after surgery, the skin swells slightly making sutures appear tight.  Sometimes the skin reacts to the sutures (which are, after all, foreign material) and usually, in the great scheme of things, this would be mild.  These are generally not infections.  However, they can get worse or become infected, especially with patient interference.  Your vet will offer their own post op check, to check the situation properly in context of the patient and procedure, and we strongly reccommend taking them up on it and, in between times, mentioning any concerns to them, always.