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Originally Posted by lisaly  One of my Yorkies was spayed after her first heat, and I worried it could affect her health. She lived a month shy of seventeen. From what I know now, I would wait until after the growth plates have closed. You should wait until he adult teeth come in so your vet can pull the baby teeth that don't come out on their own. Once more doctors start doing tubal ligations, I would probably look intro that so that the hormones remain. The risk of pyrometra in. unspayed females is high, but with tubal ligation and spayed females it's not something to worry about. http://www.caninesports.com/uploads/...tions_2013.pdf |
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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88 If you spay before there first heat it reduces the risk of mammary cancer a lot but you don't want to spay before 6 months old. They can get an infection if not spayed that is very serious and can cause death if not treated quickly. Male dogs can also smell a female in heat from very far away so she should not got outside alone when in heat. Spaying doesn't change there personality and I think people think this because normally it's puppies that get spayed and they are still developing there personality. Most yorkies have to have baby teeth that haven't fallen out pulled when they get spayed. |
From what I understood from that link is that the dog should not get spayed until after 2 heat cycles, so about at least 1 year of age? I think that all of her baby teeth are in right now, when do all the adult teeth finish coming in? I don't want to increase her chances of any type of diseases, and with the information that each heat gives a higher chance of mammary cancer, I'm a little bit confused at what exactly the article is saying - it seems like he says its more dangerous for a female to not get spayed but to do it after 2 heat cycles, not before... but isn't that increasing her risk for mammary cancer? At the same time he also states high risks for OTHER diseases with spaying.
