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Old 05-20-2007, 06:57 PM   #13
jacky
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Originally Posted by Ellie May View Post
My female is five and she is not spayed. She has never been bred either. Although spaying greatly reduces mammory tumors, it increases instances of cardiac hemangiosarcoma and hypothyroidism. There has also been some research done showing that there are more health risks for altered males than unaltered. The females are a harder call but I can't justify pulling out body parts jus because there might be a problem someday.
Lol im not having any kids & my parents think hormones make me moody so ya, i have an appt to rip out my ovaries next monday. ummm NO! :P

I was also wondering. what are the chances of cancer in females? or even just yorkies? i looked it up on google and nothing came up
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