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Originally Posted by Yoshismom1969  I have a Chihuahua that is tiny and waited until she had her first heat which was 11 months and she was just 2 lbs. We opt for the gas anesthesia as it is much safer and my vet is really good with small animals surgeries so I trust him. She even had a false pregnancy at that tiny size and I hated to see her go through that but a lot of the research I am seeing now talks about how it messes their little systems up spaying too early. Throwing their hormones off kilter, becoming afraid of thunder storms, etc...I know in Giant breeds like Danes which I am familiar with grow off kilter if spayed/neutered too early. It is really hard to know what is best for them. I have been on a lot of holistic groups lately that do not believe in spay/neutering at all and that spay/neutering them is actually what is causing the cancers. I am not sure what the answer is. There are dangers with both early and later spay/neuters so you really just have to research and find what is best for you and yours. |
To early with small breeds normally means before 5 or 6 months. Spaying early does not cause them to be afraid of thunderstorms. The thing is with females it is so much more risky to not spay they can get pyometra and that can kill the dog VERY fast. Lately I have been hearing a lot of cases where even if they get the dog to the vet and did the emergency spay for the Pyometra the dog still ended up dying a few months later. This just happened with my Aunts dog. There is so much false info out there anymore it just makes me sick because so many people will believe it. The issues with males besides cancer is they will run away and have been known to get even very injured or even killed by trying to get to a female they smell in heat. There is also the risk that since Yorkies are one of the top stolen dogs it makes your dog worth more money and a high risk of being stolen if they are not fixed and then they could be sold to a puppy mill or byb with a life time of breeding. I can tell you Callie who has been spayed before her first heat has a flat chest with what looks like little flat black spots because the mammary tissues did not develop and its very hard to get cancer in something that's not there or there is very little of it. My Aunts dog who waited until after her heat actually has nipples that stick out and actual tissue there so she has a higher ricks of developing cancer. A lot of the opsies I have heard here are well I wasn't ready to spay my dog and I had to leave them with a friend because of an emergency, I left my female outside and some lose dog got in the fence, my dog got lose and ran away and I finally got her back and shes pregnant, or the male got passed me and I couldn't get to them in time, male dog chewed through the door and so on. An emergency spay is often times not the safest way to go but neither is letting them have the puppies so your stuck in a hard place. It is very different for big dogs.