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Originally Posted by BabyGirl Rosie  Lily is my first puppy. So I am wondering at what age did you get your female spayed? Rosie is 7 years old and I seem to think she was 7 or 8 months old. But I just can't remember. My Mikki was over a year old. What do you think? |
I will answer your original question and this is what I this is best. Pebbles was 6/almost 7 months old when she was spayed. I actually wish that I had her spayed a little earlier because she has lost a lot of teeth. When he did the spay he found a puppy tooth right in the front on the bottom. When he removed it this left a huge space and caused all of her adult teeth to become lose over time. Since then she has lost all of her lower from teeth (the tiny ones) and several of the top teeth as well. Poor breeding I am sure but the space definetly contributed to her teeth falling out. No...they were not removed during dentals. Just fell out.
As for the argument about growth plates needing to close at the magical year old mark is a very broad statement. I've posted about this before and that GENERAL rule is for all different size dogs. Larger dogs growth plate take longer to close than smaller breed dogs. We own small breed Yorkies with much smaller bones VS a Great Dane.
IMO I think that you should chose an age that you feel comfortable with and if that's in the next few months so be it. It's not like you are planning not to spay you are asking what our opinions is regarding the correct age.
To the person who posted about Dr. Mercola.....well I'm sure most here know my thoughts on him.
