Without neutering the dog, can I promise to find competent owners for every puppy born in the future? Can people around me accept all kinds of behaviors when dogs are in heat? As the owner of a dog, would I like to see him suffer from the threat of disease in the future? Is there a risk of sterilization? I don't want my dog to take that risk.
I understand that neutering is good for dogs, but does it have any adverse effects on dogs?
Every time I struggle with whether to sterilize Xiuer or not, I will constantly think about the above questions.
Yeah, if I don't spay her, then if one day I don't notice that she's pregnant with a puppy, and there are more big dogs, how can I deal with this litter? Stay and raise all by yourself? Sell it all? Do I have the energy and money to raise so many dogs? What
if the new owners of the sold puppies treat them badly? And when Ah Xiu gets old, she suddenly finds out something about pyometra. At that time, should I go to sterilize her again? But I am afraid of this sterilization operation, although there are many successful cases around me, although the medical treatment is very developed now, I am still worried about my dog, after all, this is an operation, does it really have no effect on her?
With all these questions, I went into the pet hospital and consulted the pet doctor face to face about the sterilization operation. Xiuer was only 5 months old when she went there. The doctor suggested that the dog should have the operation when it was an adult. First, the operation would be cleaner when the female dog was sexually mature. Second, the resistance of the adult dog would be much better than that of the puppy, and the risk of the operation would be smaller.
Preoperative
It is best to do a more comprehensive preoperative examination, which can really reduce the risk of many operations. The recommended items include blood routine, blood coagulation, liver and kidney function.
Blood routine I will not say, check blood coagulation is to assess the risk of massive bleeding, if the blood coagulation is not ideal, we can assess the operation in advance, choose to take good care of the operation. Liver
and kidney function, although young dogs do not have liver and kidney function problems under normal circumstances, but check to rest assured, after all, a large number of anesthetics need to be metabolized by the liver and kidney, if found abnormal, it is not recommended to have surgery on the same day! You need to fast for 8 hours
before the operation. For example, if you have an operation tomorrow morning, you can stop feeding and feeding water tonight, because if you choose respiratory anesthesia during the operation, you will insert a tube into the trachea, for fear of causing discomfort. If the dog regurgitates food, it will cause suffocation.
During the operation
Just leave it to the surgeon. The operation will be anesthetized, and the dog will be operated while asleep, so there will be no pain. Sterilization of
female dogs is said to remove the uterus and ovaries together, while male dogs remove the testicles. The operation time of female dogs is longer, because the abdominal cavity needs to be opened, so the time will be longer than that of male dogs. Don't worry too much, there are really few problems during the operation if the preoperative examination is qualified.
Postoperative
Postoperative care is very important, and most of it depends on the care of the owner.
Generally, the dog will use anti-inflammatory drugs for a few days after the operation, take it to the hospital to let the doctor look at the surgical wound, and the rest of the time is taken care of by the owner (of course, you can also choose the dog to be hospitalized, and then go to pick up the stitches).
The most important thing is to take good care of the dog's surgical wound, and never let him scratch or lick the wound. Otherwise, we will be in big trouble! If the wound is licked open carelessly and becomes infected, a second operation may be needed. You can prepare an Elizabeth ring suitable for dogs to wear, avoiding the behavior of licking wounds.
About the Benefits of Sterilization
Lowered Unneutered male dogs are threatened by reproductive diseases such as testicular cancer and prostate cancer in old age. Reduces uterine infection in bitches with pyometra; spaying bitches before they are sexually mature can prevent breast cancer (6% of female dogs with breast cancer die from it) (Unneutered dogs face the threat of reproductive diseases as they age.) This directly reduces the production of stray dogs. It reduces the probability of a series of problems and behaviors caused by estrus.
Disadvantages of Sterilization
Due to physiological changes after sterilization, hormone secretion will be affected, so dogs after sterilization will be more likely to be obese, so it is necessary to develop a reasonable nutritional program to protect the health of dogs.
The above is personal experience, for reference only.
