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Originally Posted by pstinard  Tubal ligation won't affect the rates of mammary tumors and pyometra, because the hormones (mammary tumors) and uterus (pyometra) are left intact. I'm just saying...
I believe that there are birth control injections for dogs--I'm not sure how widely used and accepted they are.
BTW, in answer to a previous comment, no, the chances of mammary tumors and pyometra aren't 100% in unspayed dogs, but do they really need to be? I think that a 20 to 40% risk is quite high enough for me to decide to spay my own dog(s). (Bella has already been spayed.)
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You do the tubal ligation as a stopgap measure to allow the hormones to course through particularly large breed dogs, then you do a full OVE,
They are no-where near 100%. A very large percentage under that Phil. And what if the chance of hemangiosarcomas was increased 50% for this breed if you spayed? The number one leading cause of death for certain breeds??? And that chance is one in five dogs get it????
A deadly cancer as opposed to MT even if the MT's are cancerous?
For the Yorkshire Terrier much is still needed to be known.