Thanks everybody - any input is very much appreciated. I know that it is major surgery - it is called amputation if done when they aren't newborns, and that is the reason why I was going to just leave it long. If she wasn't so annoyed by it, I still would leave it, but she truly hates it! Who knows why her sister carries her tail over her back (like my Maltese) and she doesn't, but for some reason she carries it arched down and then to one side most of the time. She CAN hold it up, she just doesn't very often. My vet is wonderful, and she will have pain meds for sure. Now that it has come to this, I wish they had been docked right after they were born, but who knew? My Molly's was done when I got her, so I didn't expect this - poor baby...
Verbena, being a parti, Jilly has a lot of Biewer traits. Her chest gets whiter by the day! (And her sister, Mia, is blonde/gold). She is basically "yorkie colored" with a white chest.
Thanks again everyone - I really appreciate the help, and I will be a wreck the day that she is done. Thankfully, she will come home the same day... |