spaying and invitro????
 

so I went to my vet and he said that they could get her spayed. but then he mentioned something. p.s. im still going to spay her but can you tell me what this thing really is? lol so he said something about invitro fertilization. please comment and tell me if it is dangerous to do. I know what it is, can you guys tell me a little more like how does it work the cost the benafits of it and anything eles.


p.s. im still going to spay her when the vet tells me to :)

thanks

WHY in the world would your vet even mention in vitro fertilization? :confused::rolleyes::confused:

I am sorry but not to be rude but am very curious...WHAT is the purpose of your post???

Oh please get a new vet! Any vet that encourages someone to breed their dog when you CLEARLY want her spayed, is not a good vet. Breeding is best left to the experienced and educated. If you really want to breed, find a local breeder to mentor you and study study study! Lots of testing and money is involved. Good breeders usually break even or even go into debt to breed properly.

im still going to spay her im just curios what it is ok..

Then why don't you google it or ask your vet who mentioned it, ok...

Invitro fertilization is for breeding purposes, where the females eggs are flushed then mixed with sperm in Petri dish, then reinserted into a female. This is rare in dogs. Maybe your vet meant something else since you are getting your dog spayed. Unless he wants your females eggs to plant in another dog. Which would bring up a lot of questions.

I am after she gets spayed. he is a small company it is like a new family owned business. im going to switch him.

oh that sounds really hard and bad. im spaying her on Monday. when she is spayed should I change her feeding schedual?

im switching my vet because I want my dog to get spayed but he mentioned it because I told him im not breeding her.

Which means he wants breed her anyway if he wants to flush her eggs. Who knows the quality of the male he chooses to mix with your female or if it is even purebred. What what about the female he is inserting the eggs into? Is he just experimenting with invitro and using your females eggs as test subjects? Like I said earlier a lot of questions get raise.

Glad you will find another vet as this raises lots of questions of his ethics? Make sure when you get her spayed you let him know you do not want her eggs harvested and do not invitro

yes im switching and maybe adopting another one from the shelter :).

If you get her spayed, you can't do invitro. Spaying removes her uterus and the horns, which she would need in order to have puppies.

IVF is rarely done in dogs.


Your vet makes me wonder????

No, but the vet can flush the eggs during spaying process and place the fertilized eggs in another female which is why I worry about vet ethics?

If it's anything like human IVF, the eggs would need to be present, meaning the dog would need to be ovulating, meaning she would be in the middle of a heat cycle and they don't usually spay in the middle of a heat.

Not to mention the surrogate dog would have to have fertility drugs and other drugs to trick her body into not rejecting the blastocysts.

I've had IVF 8-9 times, so I'm pretty familiar with the human side of it. Not as sure on the dog side.

I do know it's rarely done. AI is the preferred method, but still a dog has to be ready (in heat and ovulating) to properly AI.

should I switch automatically??????

A dog does not need to be in heat for harvesting eggs if they are spaying. Females (both human and canine) are born with eggs fully developed your hormones tell your body when to release them which is why humans need to be ovulating. But if they take the ovary sacs out when spaying they just harvest the eggs then. Humans going through invitro plan on carring their babies so they need everything intact.

Getting a new vet after the spay is a great idea... I too am thinking about getting a new dr for my neck since I do not feel secure with his approach but I am going to wait until after he does the surgery that could possibly kill or paralyze me before I switch......

WHAT vet does this? Askin bc I've never heard of this b4 & it's just so bizarre!

This is NOT anything YOU need to even be considering! I am sorry, but you do not have the breeding stock, the knowledge, nor the notoriety as a breeder of quality lines to even worry about this! This is like someone who enjoys watching pee wee league football, show up at the Super Bowl, expecting to be accepted as a starter!!!
There is more to this than collecting eggs from a dam, sperm from a stud, putting the "stuff" collected into a jar and shake it up, pour it out onto a petri dish, and watch puppies spring forth! This is usually done by breeders that have WELL over $7000.00 invested in their bitch, and they are breeding her to a stud of impeccable pedigree, again a breeding that is done by PROFESSIONAL reproductive vets, to accomplish a difficult breeding between two dogs that are spectacular specimens of the breed.....PEDIGREES that are absolutely resplendent, for MANY, MANY generations. It is a very expensive procedure, and it is NOT done for any other reason but to continue a fabulous line of Yorkies, that certain "look" that a breeder has worked for years to achieve. I can not imagine why in the world a vet would even go here with this!!! You would really benefit from a consultation with a specialist in reproduction. I missed why this adult intact dog is not already spayed....cant be shown with an undocked tail, so you are not preserving a quality show coat. You should strongly consider having this lady spayed, before you have some cousins toddler let her out while she is in season, and Fred down the street gets to her. Then you can spend the next couple of years hanging out at sshows, learning how it works, and what you need to participate in the ring. Find a mentor that knows their pedigrees on their breeding stock, for many, many generations and not just the minimal AKC presentation. YOU need to know breeding lines and pedigrees, for many generations, and then you continue to study and research that information the entire time you breed. You can never know too much....but to not know enough can be catastrophic. Get you a QUALITY breeding female that is justified reproducing puppies for the "betterment of the breed" ....this will set you back several thousand dollars. Then you can work on getting a stud that will be a wonderful fit for your female, to produce that magical look that is our Yorkie.

Touché! :eek:

Just my two cents, I would switch vets before the spay. Who knows what this vet will do during the spay with your babies eggs. He could easily harvest them without you even knowing :-(

Personally, I would never return to this vet. Why on earth would he bring up this subject? :confused:

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exactly,,,, what if he dos actually do invitro without me knowing. they are a small business. and look what suprises me the most is that the invitro cost up to 7000 dollars he started talking about this and said it was "quite cheap"
im switching right now!!!!!!!!

Who is this Vet?? Doesn't sound like any reputable Vet I know.

he is a vet that just started and works close to our house...........................................no w when I think im going to switch right now because everything he is saying makes no sence??

I came to get her spayed hes talking to me about invitro and its benafits

kreeepy....

Again, WHO does this? It sounds like something from a horror movie!

im starting to get scared beause he doesn't even have a card omg!!!
he goes by the name carl or karl idk!!!
idk who does this maybe he is just trying to get more money out of me because I said I wasn't gonna breed her!!
that's so weird :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

Are you sure you went to see a vet? Does not make any sense at all!

yes this vet probably had no experience and just cared about my money. because all he was saying was "its quite cheap" yeah

I switched her to a new vet