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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  Generally at that age even being small a healthy pup shouldn’t be having hypoglycemia. I’m sure that veterinarian offices have something to deal with hypoglycemia. I imagine it can happen but I think it’s probably not a huge thing. I think more of a concern is blood pressure and temperature. There was a mix breed 4 or 5 pound puppy that was neutered the day I shadowed my vet and he was fasted. It is definitely something interesting to research. I just don’t think force feeding is ever a great idea unless the vet as instructed it and the same with water because one wrong slip and they aspirate it and you are looking at possible pneumonia. If forced some dogs will even throw it back up. |
He’s between eight and nine months old, and he’s never had an attack of hypoglycemia. Which is one reason I was surprised by the instruction to give him a meal on the morning of the surgery. I mean, I could see it if he had a history of hypoglycemia, but since he hasn’t, I’d think the anesthesia risk of having food in his stomach would be greater.
I do have some puppy nutrical on hand, so I could give him some of that on the morning of the surgery instead of or in addition to the peanut butter. I’m not really inclined to force feed water; that could be dangerous, especially with a wiggly pup like Jax.