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06-29-2010, 09:36 PM | #1 |
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| Scared to spay...your thoughts? I have a 3 year old yorkie who is a little over two pounds. I'm TERRIFIED to have her spayed as she is so small. The irony here is that I have been doing rescue for 10 years, primarily Siamese cats and have spayed/neutured everything I could get my hands on!! Literally thousands, so I know the odds and there were kittens/cats, dogs/puppies that didn't make it through. The thought of her not coming out of it when it would do nothing to benefit her health makes me think about it. Is it really required for her health? I'm not going to breed her. She's never around unaltered males, etc. My vet's only recommedation in terms of doing it, is that it's one less place for cancer to show up, other than that...she's ok with me not moving forward. Your thoughts? Kelly |
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06-29-2010, 09:50 PM | #2 |
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| That is a very tough decision as she is tiny. I have a 3 pounder and had her spayed. My thought here is a lot of people do it when their girls are still pups and thus would be roughly around the size your girl is. In general it is pretty safe, although occassionally things can go wrong. Hopefully you will get more responses (probably in the am as it is kind of late now) that will help you make this decision. Good luck!
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06-29-2010, 09:51 PM | #3 |
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| It's true that spaying will cut out a lot of risk of certain cancers, but you have every right to be nervous, bc she is your baby! @2 lbs , that is small, but if you go to a good vet who uses the best equipment and technology and used iso anesthesia she will be fine. The risk of her not making it is very slim nowadays. Has she has her blood work done to see if her liver and kidneys,etc are healthy enough to clean out the anesthesia during surgery? If you vet says she is healthy enough to do it, then I would trust your vet, but she's your baby, so the final decision is yours. I'm in a similar boat as you. While Uni is more than twice the size of your baby, I haven't spayed her yet, and one of the reasons is I'm scared. But the sooner it's done, the more health risks are cut out. There's another thing they can get, something about the uterus I think? but I can't remember what it's called.
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06-29-2010, 09:59 PM | #4 |
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| Pyometra, that's what i was looking for. Pyometra Kills Unspayed Dogs Pretty scary stuff I need to get Uni spayed.
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06-29-2010, 10:08 PM | #5 | |
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06-29-2010, 10:20 PM | #6 |
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| I meant pyometra^^^ as above. Eclampsia is for nursing dogs that already had a litter. Found this on google.Eclampsia in Dogs gotta love that google. you put in something with the wrong spelling and it tells you what you are looking for with the right spelling. i tell bf to google now instead of asking me how to spell something!
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06-29-2010, 10:27 PM | #7 | |
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Either way, OP that is a tough situation. Try the blood panel and if that doesn't put your mind at ease, go with your gut. She is one tiny munchkin. Do you have pics?
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06-29-2010, 10:50 PM | #8 | |
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06-29-2010, 11:02 PM | #9 |
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| These animals that have been lost under anesthesia...what were the circumstances? It does happen, but a lot of the time it can be traced back to something being missed (no blood work done, unsafe anesthesia used, etc.). Because she is so tiny, I would be thinking long and hard about it. But the other side to that is disease prevention. If she has had three heats already, spaying now to get the benefit of cancer prevention will no longer work. This would be for mammary cancer... With pyometra, each heat makes a problem more likely. So if she were to get this, the treatment is most often an emergency spay. This spay would be different though because she would be very sick during surgery. Ellie was spayed at age 6. Her vet really wanted to do it because if pyometra shows up, just how do you get the uterus of a very small dog out without spilling it (fills with pus). It's such a small area and she didn't like the idea. She was much more comfortabe spaying her before a problem developed. I do understand the worry though. It's a hard choice and all you can do is make an informed decision.
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06-29-2010, 11:38 PM | #10 | |
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06-30-2010, 05:40 PM | #11 |
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| Sophie weighed only 3 lbs soaking wet when she was spayed, had a bunch of baby teeth pulled and a dental cleaning. I took her home the same afternoon. I did have bloodwork done beforehand and she had an IV, which I didn't know was optional. The vet was wonderful, reassuring me that she spays tiny kittens, as she runs a cat rescue. I was still very nervous. She had some GI problems following surgery only due to the antibiotics she had to have for her infected mouth, preop. There is always a risk with any type of surgery. I also had an intact lab who developed mammary gland cancer and had to have a large tumour removed and be spayed at 8 years of age. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.
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