My Vet Wants Me to Spay My Female - Should I?
Add to Favorites
In this video, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question focuses on whether or not you should spay or neuter your dog based on your Vet's recommendation.
=========================
Links
My Vet Wants me to Spay My Female - Should I? - Article
Many Vets Don't Deserve Your Respect or Your Business - Article
==========================
When people have specific training questions we recommend that they go to our website and post those questions in the ASK CINDY on the front page of leerburg.com. Cindy has been training dogs since she was a teenager and has competed in several dog sports at a regional and national level. She was also a vet tech and owned a boarding/training and grooming business for many years as well as breeding working Dobermans and Belgian Malinois under the kennel name Kaiserhaus.
Questions posted to ASK CINDY are answered almost every day. They are also recorded in our systems if a dog owner has additional questions Cindy will review the previous Q&As and this helps her give better feedback and assistance.
Comments
Lost her one week after she turned 13 to heart failure, on the 4th of July.
Three months after saying goodbye to her, her daughter, a month after turning 11, fell ill. Long story short, For about I watched her decline. Two vets told me that she had eaten something that she just had to pass, then she'd be ok. Bloodwork and test didn't show anything to worry about, but I knew there had to be something more. She was hardly moving, and not eating.
Sunday morning I came home from church, took one look at her, and said it was enough. She was dying. Not having the strength to pick her up. I had to drag her onto a tarp, and then drag her to the van to get her to the vet.
I laid next to her in the van holding her tight while the vet got the needle.. Having had perianal fistulas, which the vet check when this all began, I lifted her tail to see if that was playing any part in what was happening. What I saw was pus and mucous coming out her vaginal area. She had pyometra. The vet was shock, saying it never showed up on any of the tests. But it was too late. I just couldn't watch my girl suffer any longer. Even now, a year and a half later, it tears me apart thinking about what I allowed her to endure.
I have an intact 4 year old male now, but if I were to get another female, I really don't know what I'd do. I know I wouldn't spay for the first 3 or 4 years, but after that??? I can't say.
