Spaying

We recommend that all dogs and cats which will not be used for breeding be spayed.

Spaying your pet has many significant benefits. If your dog is spayed before its first heat, its likelihood of developing mammary cancer is reduced by 95%?? The benefits in regard to likelihood of mammary cancer reduces with succeeding heat cycles, but remains significant even if your pet were not spayed until adulthood.

Other significant problems which are avoided include prevention of pyometra, a life-threatening uterine infection which necessitates an emergency spay procedure and involved medical therapy.

Your pet will also not go into heat, so there will be no problems with neighbor's male animals nor any problems in your household of blood staining during heat.

A major societal benefit is the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and the flooding of shelters with animals, many which are then killed.

During a spay, your pet is fully anesthetized and prepared for abdominal surgery. An incision is made along the midline of the belly, and the ovaries and uterus exposed. Both ovaries and uterus are ligated and fully removed. The belly is carefully sutured closed and then your pet awakened from anesthesia. Your pet will need to spend the night for monitoring. Spaying is a major surgery, but the most common one performed so it has few if any complications.

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