Poor Poppy is just come home from the vets - its awful!!

Fiona

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My por little 10month old JRT went into the vets to be spayed. She bounced off, happy as larry licking the vet nurse.

When I collected her at 4.30 the nurse put her straight into her travel box as I was on my own.

I drove her home and she cried all the way, and when I got home I couldn't even get her out of her box. She yelped when I tried (very gently) to push her.

Eventually I seperated the box into top and bottom (and managed to loose one of the catches in the process) and persuaded ehr to get out and into her own bed by the radiator in the kitchen, but she is still crying every time I leave her.

I haven't even seen the scar yet (it is on her tummy) so I dont know if it is big or small, but the vet says she had a 24 hour painkiller so shouldn't need any more until tomorrow morning.

I feel so horrible I could cry - she didn't have to have the operation, it was my decision, and I have put my baby through so much trauma. Just off the phone to my mum in tears, she says she will be OK by bedtime.

Please someone tell me that P won't hate me for this!!!

Fiona
 
She will not hate u for it....she will be slightly sore....some dogs have a sensetive pain barrier...some don't bat an eye lid.....I recently had a rescue greyhound done and she was rather sore due to lack of fat....around the area...vet said she struggled to find enough tissue to stitch her back together.....lol. she also had an external fixator removed on the same day
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Try not to make a big deal....i.e to much fuss...I know its hard but it does make them worse when u pander.
Let her rest and sleep.....she will be much better by tomorrow.
Maybe u didn't have to have her done...but Im sure she will appreciated the fact that u have saved her from a potential Pyo...which is a hell of alot more painfull and life threatening and mammary cancers and tumours later in life.

I have 5 going n this week...inc my little whippey.....im aharsh mammy...little sympathy from me
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So I shouldn't be sitting beside her on the floor in the kitchen petting her then!!

Thanks cala. Its hard not to anthropomorphize animals, and I am just so worried that she will remember that I was the one who took her to the vets this morning (she had only been for 2 vaccinations before). She is normally such a friendly dog, sitting on my knee, kissing people, waggy tail. It is v hard to see her so upset (but that is maybe why today upset her so much). I wil have to go outside in a bit when OH comes home from work as we have to do the horses. I hope she will be OK. She is a bit quieter now, but still starts to whimper as soon as I get up.

Fiona
 
She will be fine.....If she is whimpering when u leave her...I expect she is a mammys girl and is getting the attention she seeks from her mammy when she does whimper
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The anaesthetic and drugs wearing off can also cause confusion and whimpering.....I have seen dogs screaming the place down at work whilst coming around from an X ray
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If she is quiet and happy to sleep.let her slepp it off with minimal fuss
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Some puppies, even the biggest & butchest of them can be unbelievably babyish. To be expected I suppose they are babies. Keep her in the same room, but don't feel too bad, she'll be miles better in no time at all. She won't blame you at all, but will think the vet is the devil probably.....
 
Mine did exactly the same... she laid on the settee and moaned every now and again, she wouldnt come near me, mt friend came round and she laid on her lap crying, i felt so bad, but the next day she was right back to normal and had forgiven me.
Good luck she will be fine
 
I was going to say the same as Cala about the anaesthetic, it makes them a bit weird and clingy. Settle her down but keep checking without her seeing you. Hope she starts to recover soon
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When my cat was done, she managed to get out and spent the next 48 hours AWOL (in the middle of Feb with - temps at night.
My experiences with animals fter GA aren't good!!!
|Fingers crossed she feels better by tomorrow.
Fiona
 
Kisses to Poppy.

Come tomorrow, I bet you she will be fine. When Stella had her spay, she lay very quietly in her bed, which I've since learnt is her way of coping with pain. After 24 hours, however, she was eager to get out and walk.
 
Thanks.
She has had lots of kisses, but will give her another one now.
Actually managed to persuade her outside where she did a pee and a pooh, so we are back inside in the warm now, and trying to think of something which she would like to eat (normally not a hard question as she eats anything). Have tried yoghurt and chicken, but not interested.

Fiona
 
It is very distressing for you to see her in that condition. It will take a couple of days for her to feel good again, and she won't hold it against you at all. I know its hard but try to keep to your routine, if you cuddle her normally in the evenings then do so, if you spend your days rushing around, keep doing so. My bitch felt very sorry for herself, and slept for a day. I would go to her ask her if she was ok, give her a hug then get on with what I was doing. but I think that hug was more for me than her!
 
Oh Fiona, I really feel for you. I am sure you are breaking your heart at the thought of her in pain. 24hrs can make an awful difference. Dogs don't hold grudges, she will be her normal very happy kissy self in no time and not think bad of you in the least.

When we had Keisha our big standard poodle spayed she didn't bat an eyelid, however a few months later we had my Mum's toy poodle done and she was like Poppy, we felt so awful, she was in pain, wimpering, staggering about and really in a bad way. The next day she was greatly improved and a fews days later you wouldn't have known she had been operated on.

Give her a big kiss from me and the kids, hubby doesn't do kisses lol but sends her good wishes..
 
Poor wee Poppy
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big hugs and kisses to her

My Beastie had a horrible time being spayed due to the incompetence of the vets practice. She was spayed after her first season and now at the age of 6 (well 7 this year) even if you lightly touch her tummy where the scar is she starts kicking out and panicking
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It really upsets me to think what she went through.
 
chimo is going to be spayed on friday, she is a real drama queen when it comes to pain so might be in for a rough few days with her!!
 
I have just made the decision and booked my 7 year old GSD in to be spayed. I know I will feel absolutely awful when I take in a fit bouncy dog and later collect a miserable one (and i know she will be a wimp). But she has very heavy seasons, and is currently having a false pregnancy and I just know she is a prime candidate for a pyo, so as Cala says I would rather have her done when she is fit than as an emergency. Hopefully by now Poppy is feeling much better, and your are feeling less guilty.
 
Thanks guys. It reassures me to hear that this is fairly normal behaviour after an operation, but I still feel v guilty.

She is much brighter today, but sooo clingy and whiny. She sounds like a squeaky toy that someone keeps standing on.

She has had some 'metcalm' the painkiller this morning, and doesn't seem sore (at least she can jump on and off the bed so can't be too painful).

I am going to need some earplugs for the next couple of days I think.

She seems to have forgiven me, I have been licked to death this morning.

I might take her for a short walk on the lead later, to see if that is what she wants.

FIona
 
That sounds awful Gina, what went wrong??
PM if you like as I used to live in your locality (N'ards) and might know the practice involved.
Poor Beastir (that she still remembers)!!

Fiona
 
Best of luck frankie and murphysminder. It is very hard to see them in pain and miserable. Last night I was in bits when I got her home.

Fiona
 
Aww poor little Poppy
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. Spaying is one of those surgeries which I really don't like.

Lily, my Springer Collie, went in to be spayed last week and she was pretty down in the dumps that evening. She was fine the next day and now, less than a week later, she is totally back to normal.

My big white dog Clover is in the vets today being spayed, so I am sure I will have a big sad girl here tonight, but she should be fine by tomorrow.

It's a sad day anyway in this house today, as I took my beautiful little boy cat, Socks, in to the vets this morning too and had him put to sleep. He was only 3 years old and had been ill on and off for a little while with recurring Flutd, so last night I made the decision to let him go.
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My big black dog Daisy is next. She goes in later in the week. I just want to get them all over and done with at the same time - why not have us all miserable together.
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Hope Poppy feels brighter in the next couple of days.
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Thanks Tia. You are certainly taking the bull by the horns geting them all done at once. I think my head would split if I had to listen to three Poppys all gurning and whining at once.
Still - in her book I gues I deserve it for being such a bad mummy.
Good luck for clover and daisy, and I am reall sorry about your little cat. Three years is such a short time to have him.

Fiona
 
just wanted to say, please do get your dogs speyed. we had a bitch in on friday who had a closed pyometra which had ruptured by the time we got her on the table - we did everything we could but she had to be PTS over the weekend. she was an old girl, but it was entirely preventable.
 
Not quite sure what you are getting at (as all on this thread has been pro-speying, and everyone else has been very kind and reassuring to my panic).
Are you trying to say that I might put people off??

Fiona
 
One word - spoiled (in a nice way of course)!!

She hadn't eaten much all day so she got a little of the steak pie we had for dinner mixed in with her dry food, and gobbled it all up.

Much more at herself (local expression - not sure of the US equivalent), and showing a little of her fun personality again.

Thanks for asking and for the reassurance last night.

Fiona
 
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Not quite sure what you are getting at (as all on this thread has been pro-speying, and everyone else has been very kind and reassuring to my panic).
Are you trying to say that I might put people off??

Fiona

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well your 1st post may well have put people off a bit, but no, i wasn't actually trying to say that. i had just found out that the dog i spent hours on friday night operating on had died over the weekend and possibly it had got to me a bit because it was completely preventable - i wasn't getting at you in any way.
 
Sorry I snapped too.
It just seemed a bit patronizing, but under the circumstances I can completely understand where you were coming from.
I guess thats the bit of being a vet that they don't tell you in the james herriott programmes!!
I am still trying to persuade my mum to have her black lab done, but my SiL has brainwashed her against it. I will show her your post!!

Fiona
 
My vets offer keyhole surgery for speying. I'm planning on having my bitch done. It's more expensive but drastically less intrusive. I imagine others on here will have experiebce of this option as well.
 
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