[Hazelzmibaybee]

Originally Posted by Britster

I have read so many times on this website where people claim it's impossible for their unspayed girl to get pregnant, and then it happens. An unaltered male will always find a way to get to a female in heat, they can smell them from miles away. Not saying this would for sure happen but the possibly is greater.

Did you know that if you spay her now, before she ever comes into heat, you can all but eliminate her chance of ever getting mammary cancer? Mammary tumors are fairly common in older, unspayed female dogs and 50% are malignant.

Spaying greatly reduces the chances of a female dog developing this condition. In those females spayed prior to their first heat cycle, breast cancer is very, very rare. The risk of malignant mammary tumors in dogs spayed prior to their first heat is 0.05%. It is 8% for dog spayed after one heat, and 26% in dogs spayed after their second heat.

-Spaying eliminates the risk of ovarian or uterine cancer.
-Eliminates the risks of life threatening uterine infections called pyometra.
-Eliminates unwanted heats and messy discharges and smells associated with heat
-Helps control pet populations
-Eliminates the chance of "passing on" conditions such as luxating patella, collapsing trachea
liver shunt and other hereditary problems associated with small dogs.
-Reduces "pack hierarchy" amongst multiple females in the same home.

My Golden Retriever growing up was never spayed, she bleed all over the place, it was gross. She would literally get moody. She ended up, at the age of 8, having to get an emergency spay because she got so severely sick. We could have prevented it had she been spayed younger.

like i said i didn't plan on gettin Hazel spayed. i did want to breed her in 2 years... i'm not sure now though.