the vet i took morgan to lets pups go home the same day after a spay or neuter. The ones that don't may do it for a couple reasons. 1) they like to keep the pup on IV fluids after surgery for maintenance, and with the fluids they may or may not have IV drugs (antibiotics, pain meds, pepcid, etc). 2) they do surgerys later in the day because of their appt schedule. 3) a spay is an easy surgery but still the abdominal cavity is opened and organs are taken out. Since its abdominal surgery vets like to keep animals over night even if someone isn't going to be there 24 hrs so that the pup stays in a cage and doesn't move around or get picked up alot. This insures that the pup has nothing to do but sleep (drugs may be given to aid this)
Sometimes the vet or a tech will stop in during the night to check on patients (my vet does this because he owns the practice and lives down the street from it). Other times they will not. its honestly not that big of a deal if they stay overnight. I know it just worries moms and dads because they want their pups home with them.
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