Glad to hear she is doing better!
18 months is not an amount of time I’m concerned about for the first cycle to happen. If your vet isn’t comfortable doing repro work, you may want to establish a relationship with the reproductive one for additional options going forward, to better manage your girls health as the case may be.
Thanks, yes, I'm going to check anyway, but I'm less worried now.Glad to hear she is doing better!
That’s possible. Or she could have done a great job cleaning herself in combination with your mom not paying as close attention as you do. The most important thing is to monitor her heat and make sure it progresses normally, now that you’ve noticed it.
Free catch urinalysis reporting bacteria is super common—you’re getting some from the urethra as well as the sheath itself, so we usually do direct syringe draws from the bladder for bacterial culture. Giving antibiotics every time should be avoided to help deal with the rise of bacteria that build resistance to them and are then impossible to treat, and without clinical signs you don’t even necessarily have a clinical disease issue.
My dog has one tiny testicle and the other one is the size of a golf ball (30kg dog, 1 year old) doesn't show any pain or other health issue, should I take him to a local vet ?
Nope! The vet term that they will use is “Cystocentesis”. I wouldn’t be worried about the bacterial value unless your doggo also has clinical signs. Also, if there’s a situation your vet feels a cysto is necessary, they will of course recommend one, you don’t need to worry about them skipping it if you don’t ask.
As long as it is in fact the other testicle, which you can verify by gently palpating both of them, you should be fine. Normal canine testicles can vary in size depending on breed and developmental characteristics. If it’s only one, however, that’s a different scenario and should be addressed.
Thank youNope! The vet term that they will use is “Cystocentesis”. I wouldn’t be worried about the bacterial value unless your doggo also has clinical signs. Also, if there’s a situation your vet feels a cysto is necessary, they will of course recommend one, you don’t need to worry about them skipping it if you don’t ask.
There’s different formulations and concentrations, but they will all be ivermectin. And then of course you have the horse ones with apple flavoring and other tasty stuff—dogs also like the taste, and this is one of the high risk toxicity situations like I mentioned previously.
Nope. In just about every state, prescribing or giving out dosage information is considering practicing veterinary medicine, and is illegal without a valid patient client relationship. Sorry bout that.
I'm so happy we have a veterinarian in here. Your expertise and friendship here is valued. Thank you so much.
Nope. In just about every state, prescribing or giving out dosage information is considering practicing veterinary medicine, and is illegal without a valid patient client relationship. Sorry bout that.
Both. I can clean what I can see easily enough but I can't pour ear cleaner deeper without violating the warnings on all the products that say not to use with dogs that have damaged tympanic membranes.
I think you might be a bit confused. I don’t think there is/are any laws in the US that specifically require you to spay/neuter your pets, HOWEVER - should you choose to rescue your pet from a shelter or humane society, virtually all of those facilities will require the pet to be spayed or neutered prior to being released to their new owner. So, should you adopt from a breeder and raise your dog from a puppy, then there is nothing requiring you to spay or neuter your dog.
This is exactly correct! And other than less than professional vets bullying you about it, (after which you should swap medical providers) there is no obligation to spay or neuter your pup.
Ohhhhh that’s it I think!! Thank you sooo much
You MIGHT encounter breeders who force you to sign a spay/neuter agreement prior to selling you a puppy, but I don't know how legally binding that is or how they can even check
That's crazy, specially since you pay for that dog.
Can confirm. Pup has such contract, worded as "you do not fully own your dog until you provide spay/neuter evidence no later than 18mos of age" . I doubt they would ever try to take you to court to enforce such contract especially if there is no injury to the fact to them. Goes on to state that any accidental breedings , they are entitled to 80% of the sale of any puppies, etc. It is mostly to give them options to go after people looking to buy breeder dogs for backyard puppy mill use and they find out about it. Without such contract they would have no legal recourse to go after such people.
That’s alarming. Though, I can’t imagine how on god’s green earth they could ever hope to enforce that. I mean, why don’t they just have a questionnaire for new puppy owners like they do with handguns?
Only way the breeder can enforce is to file a breech of contract lawsuit and attempt to have the dog confiscated, as the contract stipulates that you do not retain full ownership of the dog until you present proof of spay/neuter. So they will claim that the dog is still theirs under the terms and the "owner" has to return it. That being said, it sounds dubious as the full price has been paid already for the pup, and unless you are breeding the dog and making bank off of the offspring, the breeder can't really claim any damages from such a breach. They would probably spend 10K in legal fees and years of waiting for the court system to try in the first place, so I really doubt they would. I can only see this happening if they find the dog is being used by a rival breeder under fraudulent conditions. The contract is their protection mechanism against their bloodlines being exploited that way, otherwise they wouldnt have a leg to stand on if another breeding outfit bought up some pups and put them to work.
Well, that does make sense, and I can understand why they would want to take steps to defend/maintain their lines. It just sounds bogus in practice, but like you said, is probably hardly ever enforced, unless there were an obvious example of breeding going on with the pup.
True but is typically limited to a remediation of a payment of money for damages. So the breeder would have to claim some kind of damage as a result of breach of contract. If you aren’t breeding and selling puppies what damage have you done to the breeder to force a monetary payment to them? The other avenue would be return of property which the breeder could try to claim that the terms of the contract indicate the dog is not owned by the purchaser until it is spayed/neutered. A dog that was paid for, raised, cared for, and owned for over 1.5 years. I can’t see a judge accepting that argument regardless of the contract fancy wording. Small claims generally can’t force “specific performance” either , as in forcing you to have the surgery done to the dog.
