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Originally Posted by ladyjane  |
When you put off doing necessary procedures like spays and dentals there are greater possibility of complications. For instance, you do not spay your dog there is a much greater chance they will develop mammory tumors as a senior due to the hormones that she has been exposed with each heat cycle. There is also the chance that she could develop pyrometria and this is a life threatening emergency. Now a simple spay that would have been without complications has turned into a spay, tumor removal and a much longer procedure for a senior pet. This is when complications are more likely to arise since the dog will be under anesthesia (and a deep anesthesia) for a longer period of time and there is also a great amount of blood lose resulting in more stress for the dog and a longer recovery as well. It's the same with routine dentals. If you were to vet your dog annually and the vet suggests that a dental be done for periodontal disease prevention, it is a much less risky procedure. But if you were to wait until all of your dogs teeth were in an advanced state of periodontal disease and they were at risk of losing some or even all the teeth this is much more risky as well. Then you add into the equation the depth of anesthesia required to do longer and more complicated surgeries the risk will increase as well as the recovery time. My point is, early on in your pets life if you take proper preventative care the risk is always much lower and the outcome more positive. When you wait until you are faced with my dog needs a spay because there are mammory tumor and she is a senior or my dog has death breath because she (or he) has advanced periodontal disease then there is cause for concern for a positive outcome or complications.