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03-19-2010, 04:39 PM | #16 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Yakima, Washington USA
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| If you do not fix her and your sister does not have Elvis fixed then I expect you will have pups at some point. It happens. At 9 pounds she is large enough to do ok in a spay with a good vet. |
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03-19-2010, 05:08 PM | #17 | |
Mardelin Yorkshire Terriers Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California
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http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/yor...-answered.html On the fact of not wanting to spay your little girl. I'd like to address that too. Do you realize for every unbred season your girl experiences, you are putting her at risk of mammary cancer and even worse pyrometria. You are still risking her life. As a exhibitor/breeder as soon as my girls are retired from my breeding program (age 5) they are spayed. I don't want to risk their lives, even worse why put my boys through the agony.
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03-19-2010, 05:13 PM | #18 |
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| Glad you changed your mind Last edited by JeanieK; 03-19-2010 at 05:15 PM. |
03-19-2010, 07:37 PM | #19 |
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| Good choice on not breeding. I know it can seem exciting and fun to have little puppies but I don't think people realize how much work it truly is, as well as possible heartbreak, loss and money and time. I would never/could never be a breeder. I don't understand why you're not getting her spayed though, considering she has the potential to become pregnant still.
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03-19-2010, 09:47 PM | #20 |
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| I am just not getting her spayed b/c she isn't around male dogs EVER so she can't get pregnant. Ella's actually terrified of other dogs. Mating would probably make her scarred for life. I'm not sure if there are health benefits to getting her spayed, if so i'd like to find out about them.
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03-19-2010, 09:49 PM | #21 | |
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03-19-2010, 10:06 PM | #22 |
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| I wanted to breed Ellie. Didn't end up doing it (in part thanks to YT). Nobody ever explained the benefits of spaying to me. So at age 6 she was still unaltered. When I did learn about the benefits, I still didn't want to do it and I did have good reasons (fear of anesthesia and not wanting to remove her "parts"). It came down to the fact that her vet was very concerned to just leave her unaltered. With every heat cycle, the risk of pyometra (uterine infection) increases. Usually an emergency spay is needed if this happens (and hopefully it's diagnosed in time). But this spay would have had to be done while she was very sick. There would have also been a risk of spilling the pus out of the uterus and into her body causing massive problems (can be hard to maneuver in small dogs' abdomens and the uterus can rupture in this state). I decided to go ahead with it, but before we got to it, I found some lumps in Ellie's mammary chain. Very scary... They were small and the hope was that they were just do to hormonal issues and weren't cancerous. The plan was to spay and hope things straightened out. Thank God they did go away after spay and there haven't been any problems like that since. A dog who is spayed before her first heat has less than a 1% chance of developing mammary cancer. Spayed after the first heat but before the second it goes up to 8%. Anytime after the second heat it is about 26%. But even for the older females, hopefully the reduced hormonal issues after spay would benefit the their mammary glands.
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03-20-2010, 04:49 AM | #23 |
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| Here are the benifits in an easy to read list: Spaying elimanates the following - * Spotting during the heat period * False pregnancies (increasingly common with age) * Mammary tumors (less than 1% incidence in animals spayed before their first heat, versus higher than 50% incidence in intact female dogs over 5 years of age) * Uterine infections (increasingly common with age; often life-threatening) * Tumors of the ovaries or uterus * Stress, leading to increased susceptibility to disease Also - By preventing pregnancy, spaying permanently eliminates a source of great physical stress for female animals, including complications such a ceasarian section delivery of the puppies. Then it hepls to prevent the following: Breast cancer Cystic endometrial hyperplasia and pyometra False pregnancies Mastitis (can occur during false pregnancy) Transmissible venereal sarcoma Ovarian and uterine tumors Cystic ovaries and hyperestrogenism Chronic endometritis Vaginal hyperplasia and prolapse Uterine torsion or uterine prolapse And any surgery during emergencies are a lot more difficult and sometimes the outcome is very gray - a lot worse! I have not listed the beneifts of behavior, but there are some as well. Link: Health Benefits of Spaying and Neutering |
03-20-2010, 07:00 AM | #24 | |
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People come on here, my dog got out and now she is pregnant. My friend came over with her un neutered male and I did not know my girl was in heat and they tied. My neighbors 9, pound dog dug under the fence and tied with my 3 pound girl. My neighbors dog tied through the fence with my girl. yes it can happen through the fence. My dog was jumped by a male dog while we were out for a walk. I did not know she was in heat. And the worst part is you do not know what kind of dog, or what diseases this dog might have, it is out of your control. Why on earth would you not want to spay her? | |
03-20-2010, 01:12 PM | #25 | |
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03-20-2010, 02:47 PM | #26 | |
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03-21-2010, 04:25 AM | #27 | |
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03-21-2010, 05:06 AM | #28 | |
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And an experienced male will have them in matter of seconds. | |
03-21-2010, 06:11 PM | #29 |
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| I tend to not think of other before i speak. I know how my dog is while she's around other dogs. But of course i didn't even think about HER while i was considering what i wanted HER to do, bad dog mother.
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03-21-2010, 06:16 PM | #30 | |
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