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Old 01-04-2010, 12:53 PM   #15
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No he did not prescribe antibiotics as she appears fine and only has mild symptoms other than the milk and he did give her a real thorough checking over. I will not get her spayed no, I would do ordinarily but the vet does not recommend it as she had an anaesthetic in the past when she was young for a knee op and they had real problems with her. Weighing up the benefits to the risk I do not think it would be a good idea and nor did the vet. Thanks so much everyone x
Has your vet spoken to you about pyometra? It's a life threatening uterine infection that can occur as they get older. We've had many sad stories either of people losing their senior girls to it because they are too old to safely spay.

Anesthesia is much safer now than it was seven years ago.
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