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Originally Posted by gemy  Is this specialist board certified with? Animal Reproduction. American College of Theriogenologists This is the American specialty organization which certifies vets for this specialty. 
I SERIOUSLY doubt the OP's vet consult is actually board certified by these people....the advise given to the OP to allow this female to continue with this pregnancy essentially proves that. At roughly just past mid point in the pregnancy, I don't truly understand how the e spay would present more dangers than bringing to term 3 pups from un-known heritage. |
This is the bottom line...."unknown heritage" from the father.....halfway thru the pregnancy.....no way the risks to termination out weigh the risk of allowing this to continue. The vet is looking at a wonderful price for an emergency c-section, plus medical care for the female and the babies post whelp..... Hoping the OP is spending quality time with her precious little lady, whose life has been put into jeopardy thru negligence on the part of the OP.....while THIS pregnancy may not have been planned, this is clearly someone that wanted to become "a breeder", or this little lady would have already been spayed.....so "now she are one"! She will go through all the heartbreak and anxiety and suffer the possible loss of puppies AND her momma.....one of which was already reabsorbed.....but for what??????? For a litter of mix breed pups that she can not even register.....sooooooooooo sad for momma and babies. Hopefully, she will at least be responsible and ETHICAL enough to sell these babies, if they survive, on a spay neuter contract, and also have a provision in her contract that the puppies MUST be returned to her in the event these friends or whoever, can not keep these puppies. But realistically, I seriously doubt there is even going to be consideration for the LONG TERM future of these babies, as so little concern is evident for their momma, with whom the OP has "bonded and loves".........my heart breaks.......