These animals that have been lost under anesthesia...what were the circumstances? It does happen, but a lot of the time it can be traced back to something being missed (no blood work done, unsafe anesthesia used, etc.).
Because she is so tiny, I would be thinking long and hard about it. But the other side to that is disease prevention. If she has had three heats already, spaying now to get the benefit of cancer prevention will no longer work. This would be for mammary cancer... With pyometra, each heat makes a problem more likely. So if she were to get this, the treatment is most often an emergency spay. This spay would be different though because she would be very sick during surgery.
Ellie was spayed at age 6. Her vet really wanted to do it because if pyometra shows up, just how do you get the uterus of a very small dog out without spilling it (fills with pus). It's such a small area and she didn't like the idea. She was much more comfortabe spaying her before a problem developed.
I do understand the worry though. It's a hard choice and all you can do is make an informed decision.
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