Not Papaya's greatest day: she got spayed today.
We were not looking forward to this. It's an operation, anesthesia, a wound, stitches, pain. We'd prefer her to stay as she is, integral, but we're strongly advised differently. Dogs get a lot older than wolves in nature, and that means their wombs and mammary glands have a high chance to react badly to their own oestrogen hormone at later age. They'll have nasty inflammations or cancer. When spayed the risk is greatly reduced.
If we'd had done this before her first period the chance wold have been negligible, but we were too late.
Well, she spent 10:00-17:00 at the vet's, in a cage. Now she has to take things easy for a few days. No running and/or jumping. Hm.
But she eats well again, pills and all, and she looks happy, and wags her tail again. We think she's well.
We were not looking forward to this. It's an operation, anesthesia, a wound, stitches, pain. We'd prefer her to stay as she is, integral, but we're strongly advised differently. Dogs get a lot older than wolves in nature, and that means their wombs and mammary glands have a high chance to react badly to their own oestrogen hormone at later age. They'll have nasty inflammations or cancer. When spayed the risk is greatly reduced.
If we'd had done this before her first period the chance wold have been negligible, but we were too late.
Well, she spent 10:00-17:00 at the vet's, in a cage. Now she has to take things easy for a few days. No running and/or jumping. Hm.
But she eats well again, pills and all, and she looks happy, and wags her tail again. We think she's well.
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