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Originally Posted by 107barney  There will be wide opinions on this. My vet spays and neuters at 6 months of age. |
Exactly...I do not like to spay until after the first heat......only because my female Scarlett was spayed at 10 months of age....she never had a first heat...a year later she came into full blown heat..so after she went thru that she had to be re spayed....when they did that he found a small piece of her ovary..just enough to throw her into a heat....he explained to me that had she gone thru a full heat prior the chances of that happening would have been slimmer....Isabella was never spayed as she never had a true heat cycle, just swelling but no spotting, but did have a false pregnancy. Sadly though Isabella was diagnosed with GME at 14 months of age and died at 17 months for the GME.
My boys (Shih Tzu's) are neutered at 9 to 10 months of age...and both are still squatters...
