bettyeanne | 01-04-2005 02:40 AM | Lexi's Mom, I would say that the most important thing is to make sure that your vet is familiar with the Yorkie breed. Treatment is a little different than with other breeds, usually because of their size. The require smaller quantities of anesthesia, meds, etc. If you are comfortable with your vet and allow him/her to spay Lexi, you will be instructed on recovery. For our Toto [spayed at 8 months] it was much more traumatic for us that for her! :) Everything went well, we were able to bring her home after she had fully recovered from the anesthesia and just instructed to keep her comfy, keep an eye on the incision [stitch removal in 10 days], make sure she didn't do her regular jumping up and down and to basically let her rest, drink plenty of fluids, eat if she wanted to and make sure she was going pee pee. I held her for two days and followed Dr. Lucy's instructions and she did great!! After a couple of days, she was her old self again! The hardest thing was making sure she didn't jump up and down off furniture for about two weeks ... otherwise, we noted absolutely no change in her! She was a brat before and a brat after!!! ;) Try not to worry ... like I said, it's a lot harder for us than for our baby!! :o |