Oh, those sharp teeth

[gracielove]

Originally Posted by pstinard

Thanks for the article! I will research this more thoroughly. I'm not concerned about population control, because Bella is an indoor dog and is only outside when she is carefully supervised and on a leash. I will ask the vet more questions when I take her in for her 16 week shots.

Yes, do your research first. There have been other threads on the subject posted here on YT so you may want to do a forum search for those as well.

[SWHouston]

I don't have to worry any more about the extractions. My Adult Female Becca and My Male Puppy Ichabod play Tug-o-War with each other so roughly, that Ickey has already lost one of his "baby" K9's, and I expect the other to be "yanked" out before long.

[pstinard]

Originally Posted by gracielove

Yes, do your research first. There have been other threads on the subject posted here on YT so you may want to do a forum search for those as well.

Yes indeed, I did do a forum search. The great debate is whether to wait until after the first heat to do a spaying, or whether to do it before--there are two major lines of thought and it hasn't been definitively resolved yet. My vet told me to have it done before the first heat, at 5 months, but my research indicated that female Yorkies often don't go into heat until around 7 or 8 months, so that's why I was thinking of asking my vet if I could have it done at 6 months. I'll see what her baby teeth are doing at 6 months, and if most of them have come out by then, I'll probably have the spaying and dental extraction done then. If her teeth are still in the process of coming out, I might nervously wait a little longer. I don't want the teeth yanked out before they are ready to be yanked out, but I don't want her spayed during her first heat, either .