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Originally Posted by PackOf1  Like I said before, it was my observation base on my personal experience with our pets (and we've had a lot), our female dogs who've given birth to puppies a couple of times passed away naturally compared to some of the females who never gave birth and they developed tumors and cancers. Ofcourse we also had female dog, never gave birth and didnt develop any medical condition. As for spaying, truth be told, I dont recall ever hearing my sister mention the vet suggest that.. Ive heard her talk about vet suggeting nuetering for the male dogs so that they don't go "crazy" when the females are in heat. (Please refer to my earlier post where I wrote most of the our pets are owned by my sister)
Of all the puppies/ dogs we had, prior to Mojo and now with Mollie and Mollyeet, Ive only really owned 2 female dogs. Japanese- Spitz mix named Smoochie who got pregnant twice and died of old age, and Chelsea, a chiuaua-terrier mix, who we didnt mate with any dog but died relatively earlier than Moochie bec. she developed some sort of cancer in her uterus. After Chelsea died, I stopped being emotionally invested in our puppies bec. i felt really sad and i was young. Id help with my sister with the our pets, I play with them but never really "owned" any or played favorite to any of them.
I know what its like to have a pet die on me specially one who had a medical condition and we're doing everything to make her better. I've only started "owning" a pet again... Mojo.. with Mollie and Mollyeet. I do not want to go through the sadness of losing any of our puppies/dogs therefore I will not risk their health or life.
As for Mollyeet, I believe her cycle's about to end and therefore mating her is moot.
I will talk to our vet about spaying and find out his opinion on this matter. |
I am happy to hear you are going to discuss this with your vet for Mollyeet. After reading your post, I also see that I am comparing the health benefits of spayed females to unspayed females and I think your observations are based primarily on the comparison of unspayed females long term and whether they have produced litters. See, I said I was confused..
but I see what you're saying now, and understand how you would have made those observations.
