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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  I dont know what year this was you were referring to, but back when I was a teen ager, we had a little chicuahua and something NEW had just come out...a SHOT to prevent them from coming in heat! Well, we signed up for this new fabulous medical advancement....every 6 months, Christy got a shot to keep her from coming into heat! It worked like a charm! It worked for about 6 years....then she hemorrhaged to death one day.....she was bleeding from every orifice she had...we rushed her to the vet that I was working for, he worked and worked to save her...they were not doing all the medical intervention they do now....I do not remember blood transfusions being available (1964-65)....that poor baby died.....
Maybe you were also giving this shot to your GS???
I have never ever again given any "new injections" for anything they have come up with since then...I think the last time I was at my vet office last month, I saw a poster advertising a shot against heartworms???!!! NOT in THIS lifetime!!!!! |
Our German Shepherd's name was Christy too
. No, she wasn't receiving birth control shots. She had an emergency spay when she was young and got pregnant. We just didn't know any better back in those days, and let her run around outside unattended--there were no leash laws back in those days. She was eating Purina Dog Chow--it was all you could get at the supermarket in a small town. She would have died around 1972, I think.