My female Chi is not neutered and I decided it isn’t a big deal other than her being a little nutcase when she is in heat:eek: Needless to say our other Chi is neutered so no possibility of breeding there. She is never allowed out of my sight so no, never possibility of anything happening! I do believe in not breeding unless you are producing super quality show dogs that will have homes, but, I am not producing puppies. Any thoughts?
Your thoughts will change when/if your bitch develops a pyometra and needs to be spayed emergently.
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Your thoughts will change when/if your bitch develops a pyometra and needs to be spayed emergently.[/QUOTE]
Or develops mammary cancer. Happened to my unspayed bitch when I was a kid.
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Your thoughts will change when/if your bitch develops a pyometra and needs to be spayed emergently.[/QUOTE]
What is that? Do all females develop that? How do they breed dogs if all females that are not spayed develop that? I will google it.
If you don’t believe in breeding, it’s best to fix your dog. But I think you are just trolling for trouble.
If you don’t know what a pyometria is, I think you need to spay your dog.
An emergency pyo spay isn’t particularly fun, or cheap. The signs of a developing pyo are often very subtle, and the risk of death if those signs aren’t caught is pretty significant.
Please spay your dog.
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If you don’t believe in breeding, it’s best to fix your dog. But I think you are just trolling for trouble.[/QUOTE]
IME Ladylexie doesn’t go around trolling.
But I don’t understand not spaying a dog either. In theory I am against spaying/neutering, but in practice?
I would do both.
We had a dog come in on Saturday acting lethargic and just not quite right. She was an unspayed 5 year old. It was a pyometra. My clinic is one of the less expensive in the area and his bill came to $900 for the emergency pyo spay. It’s not a given for all unspayed females, but it’s a risk I wouldn’t want to take with an animal I loved when the prognosis can be so poor and the cost so high. It is so easily preventable with a $200 spay that can completely erase the possibility of your dog being in such terrible misery.
Lexie I think you love your little chi as much as I love mine, which is a heck of a lot, so please consider getting yours spayed. They’re too little to handle a major infection like a pyo or much of any health issues. I understand what you mean about her not being any problem but the unforeseen problems are the real danger. I ended up delayed on getting mine spayed until she was two due to circumstances in my crazy life but I got her done ASAP. I worried about mine fighting, being attacked by another dog, cancer and especially a pyometra.
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If you don’t believe in breeding, it’s best to fix your dog. But I think you are just trolling for trouble.[/QUOTE]
I am not trolling for trouble…why would asking about spaying be trolling for trouble??
I have always always spayed/neutered all my animals, but, I adopted this little Chi and she isn’t spayed. I have never had such a tiny dog and to be honest I’m so worried about spaying such a tiny little dog although I know that is an unreasonable fear. She is in heat right now for the third time and being quite the little annoying twit to our neutered male (standing on him, jumping on him, humping her bed) etc. I am researching all the health concerns and it really does seem appropriate to spay her. My husband and I had our GSD’s done promptly, but, we got them as pups. Thanks for your replies.
I really really struggled with it with my dog and I never even think twice about s/n with any of my others. She’s beyond a dog to me and I was really scared of the surgery. So I researched and took her to the best available vet I could find. And still cried when I left her, such a sap! Good luck, I totally understand!
In this case, especially, because I totally get the worry and sympathize with your feelings, I would just research carefully and take her to the best vet in your area. I had to have my chi bitch spayed at 7 when she developed pyometra, and it was so rough on her. The surgery was awful, and we were pretty sure we were going to lose her at a couple of points. The removal of her mammary glands for biopsy was particularly brutal - the bruising made it very difficult for her to get around for a really long time. She was the same way, never any trouble, and I was SO worried about surgery, but then I got hit with a major and much more awful surgery. Just FYI, she lived to be 17, but it was a pretty awful time for us.
I wonder why pyometra is such a problem now and it was not so much in years past. We used to raise and train field trial and hunting beagles, and none of them were spayed or neutered. We had many of the dogs for their life and non of them, nor our Labradors, ever developed either testicular cancer or an infection of the uterus. Is it the food, the numerous kinds of internal pest medications we have now or what. We lost a collie before we knew what heartworm was, and had a kennel of puppies with distemper spread by a stray dog (my father saved them all except the stray, and our Lab we lost to hip dysplasia. This is a genuine question, I am not trying to provoke an outcry.
More recently, I spayed my female Lab at seven years old and neutered my Jack Russell Terrier at 10, neither of those had any issues with their reproductive system. I lost the Lab to splenic cancer and the JRT just two days ago to a collapsed trachea secondarily pneumonia from a long year of steroid treatment for chronic bronchitis.
Get your chi fixed. An oops pregnancy can kill her and oopses happen to the best of us. The only reason I don’t have my male neutered is because he is holding out on us with his second nut. If it was not for that little jerk I would be done with it by now.
You don’t neuter a female dog.
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Yes you do. Neuter is the non gender term for removing sexual organs.
You Spay a female, you castrate a male.
We all understood the message. No reason to be crabby.
Better than fixing it, that drives me crazy, was your dog broken before?
pyometras are emergencies. The reason you want to spay if you are not going to breed is primarily to avoid this, and to reduce the risk of breast cancer. I have a 6# Papillon and she did fine for her spay.
I believe we had a person in the last few years who had a bitch get a pyo, she finally got her spayed and lost her anyway. If I remember correctly, she ended up with a systemic infection.
if the surgery is worrisome for you, a couple of things to consider. Make sure you do pre surg bloodwork. I always do that and my little Pap came back with higher liver values the first time so my vet refused to put her under. It would have killed her. 3 months later her values were normal and we did the surgery. I followed the instructions from my vet to a T, including the cone and she came through fine.
Pyometras are not to be messed with and part of the problem is you often have a severe infection by the time you discover it.
