who knew how bad a vet could botch a spay?
well, unfortunately we found out. and so did bindi.
bindi is the pup that we found, and fostered, and then ended up keeping for ourselves. she's a bundle of mutsy energy and fun.
but not so much today.
she was spayed more than a year ago, when she was just a 6 month old pup. but then a few months later, she went into heat!
i asked our vet about it (not the same vet who spayed her), and he said that a small piece of her ovary was probably missed in the spay, which releases enough hormones for your dog to have a heat, even if they can't get pregnant.
so yeah, each heat cycle is messy. blood drops everywhere. gross.
but if bindi couldn't get preggo, then we didn't see the mess as good enough a reason to have her put under again and go through all that. and a heat only comes twice a year anyhow.
well, at least that's how we felt...until she had a false pregnancy.
bindi basically thought she was the mama of four squeaky toys and a bone for a couple weeks. she could go no where without them, and would groom them and talk to them. it was really adorable and sad at the same time.
so we called the animal hospital who did the spay.
they told us that the vet who had done the operation was no longer with them *ahem*, but that next time bindi went into heat to bring her in. if there was a small piece of ovarian tissue left in there, then during the heat would be the most likely time to find it since it would be swollen.
so...of course bindi started her heat this time during icemaggedon.
the vet was closed all last week, but we were able to get her in first thing yesterday.
a normal spay incision is 1-2 inches, but since they didn't know where a piece of ovary might be floating around, so they had to make a 7-8 inch incision to do an exploratory surgery.
what they found made me seriously question the sobriety of the original operating vet.
they found half her uterus, plus both her ovaries!
i cannot imagine how someone could take out half a uterus and call it a day! missing a small piece of ovary is something i could maybe understand, but not this!
anyways, bindi is hopefully all taken care of now. the animal hospital is of course covering all the expenses...i think they're eager to smooth things over.
poor baby. seeing her down makes me so sad.
our dogs are like a part of our family. seriously our furbabies.
i imagine someone will get extra spoiled this week.
well, unfortunately we found out. and so did bindi.
bindi is the pup that we found, and fostered, and then ended up keeping for ourselves. she's a bundle of mutsy energy and fun.
but not so much today.
she was spayed more than a year ago, when she was just a 6 month old pup. but then a few months later, she went into heat!
i asked our vet about it (not the same vet who spayed her), and he said that a small piece of her ovary was probably missed in the spay, which releases enough hormones for your dog to have a heat, even if they can't get pregnant.
so yeah, each heat cycle is messy. blood drops everywhere. gross.
but if bindi couldn't get preggo, then we didn't see the mess as good enough a reason to have her put under again and go through all that. and a heat only comes twice a year anyhow.
well, at least that's how we felt...until she had a false pregnancy.
bindi basically thought she was the mama of four squeaky toys and a bone for a couple weeks. she could go no where without them, and would groom them and talk to them. it was really adorable and sad at the same time.
so we called the animal hospital who did the spay.
they told us that the vet who had done the operation was no longer with them *ahem*, but that next time bindi went into heat to bring her in. if there was a small piece of ovarian tissue left in there, then during the heat would be the most likely time to find it since it would be swollen.
so...of course bindi started her heat this time during icemaggedon.
the vet was closed all last week, but we were able to get her in first thing yesterday.
a normal spay incision is 1-2 inches, but since they didn't know where a piece of ovary might be floating around, so they had to make a 7-8 inch incision to do an exploratory surgery.
what they found made me seriously question the sobriety of the original operating vet.
they found half her uterus, plus both her ovaries!
i cannot imagine how someone could take out half a uterus and call it a day! missing a small piece of ovary is something i could maybe understand, but not this!
anyways, bindi is hopefully all taken care of now. the animal hospital is of course covering all the expenses...i think they're eager to smooth things over.
poor baby. seeing her down makes me so sad.
our dogs are like a part of our family. seriously our furbabies.
i imagine someone will get extra spoiled this week.
Oh my goodness! Poor baby. I have never heard of this happening--seriously, how do you take out HALF the uterus and leave in BOTH ovaries? Hope she is feeling better soon. She's a real cutie.
ReplyDeleteAwww....that is the saddest furbaby I have ever seen! She looks like such a sweet dog and it looks like she's really been through a lot. Hopefully she'll be back on her feet soon.
ReplyDeleteWOW that is nuts how do you do that and call yourself vet! I hope that vet is not long working anywhere!!! Poor baby!!! She looks so sad I'm sorry she had to go through that again! I know what it's like my dogs are part of our family as well they are my babies! I'm glad they at least paid for the operation or whatever else! Hope she is better really soon and no worries.
ReplyDeleteaww.... i hope Bindi feels better soon!!!
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