[DBlain]

I had this done to my first yorkie about 26 years ago, before the internet and Yorkie Talk. The vet at the time made light of it, he said there was nothing to it, that he just makes a small biopsy size hole on the vocal cord. He said it was common that lots of people that retired to places like FL had to do it when in condos. However the recovery was a lot worse for the dog then the vet led me to believe it would be, he seemed to be in a lot of pain for about week. This put my husband and I under a lot of distress and regret for having put him through this. He was quite a barker and was disturbing our neighbors a lot so there was some relief in that but still we were sorry we took that step, but like I said the vet really made light of it, it was only later that I found out lots of vets would not perform that surgery. Over time his bark came back a little, I believe it is because the hole starts to close back up. He did also sound raspy and people always thought I was choking him. I am 56 and got my first yorkie in my late 20's, looking back now I am surprised I did not make more dumb mistakes since I did not have the luxury of Goggling everything before hand.