[alaskayorkie]

Have any of you who own smaller Yorkies ever been told they were too small to spay? Jillie, who is 3.5 pounds, was scheduled to be spayed today at 6 months, and the vet told me to come back in a month. I was surprised.

His reasoning is she's been gaining steadily since I've had her, and he called a .2 gain in the last month significant. He wants to give it a month and see if she gets closer to 4. If she's not, he'll still go ahead and do the surgery.

I guess I'd rather be cautious, but it's going to be much more inconvenient. I'm on vacation this week, and could have watched her 24-7 during her recovery. Plus, I expect she's going to come into her first heat in the next month, and I'm really not looking forward to that with two males in the house, neutered or not.