When we took our other girl to be spayed a few years back we used a place called your vets (I think that’s its name) that use students and they nearly killed her, I like them to have a season first and then plan the spay from there but they talked me into just doing it straight away. Turns out she was just coming into season when they opened her up and couldn’t control the bleeding, no phone call to tell me and when I went to collect her I got her back in a right state. I spent the next week sleeping in the lounge with her because I honestly thought she wasn’t going to make it, I complained to the vets and they couldn’t give a shit about it.
Give it at least 3 months. Nothing to lose, but £££ to gain if it works for Iggy like it has for our 4 'olds'. BTW...I also give ours a raw chicken wing every morning. The enzymes in them help to break down the bacteria that form plaque, and the bones scour their teeth.
Kinnell !! It's in our puppy contracts that (for bitches) spaying shouldn't be done until after their second 'full' season (they sometimes have a small semi-season first, so disregard that one). And then any decent Vet will insist it isn't done until 3 months after a season finishes (not earlier or later). For the boys we say not until they're at least 18 months old.
I should have trusted my instincts on that one but it’s made me incredibly wary of vet’s now and I’m dreading the new girl going in. (Not that vet’s obviously)
The Vet I recommended (Coalville) are excellent. Malvern's not that far (in fact, we're there for a show on Sunday) and you'd have some peace of mind. 2 of our girls had the keyhole procedure there mid last year. TBH..once they got over the anaesthetic (24 hours), you wouldn't know they'd had anything done.
my Scoo loves everyone only thing he barks at is inanimate objects if they’re not where he expects them to be (a fallen tree for example) lol
Funnily enough I used to live in Hinckley and went into Coalville regularly. Is that the dog show at the show ground your going to?
TBH our Nell is the most bomb-proof puppy ever. Why she should suddenly take fright at a watering can of all things, is weird. It started at a garden centre and I suppose strange place and new shape is understandable, but she was scared of ours when we got home too. Nothing else phases her. I'm aware that she's at the age where they're pre-programmed to be wary of new things. She's at the age where they'd be starting to venture away from the pack in the wild, so it's a 'hard wired' defence instinct.
Yeah. It's one of my favourite venues. We have Fly & Nell entered, plus another of our pups 'Jess' will be there.
A raw chicken wing? You don't know my dog, mate. He's been pampered like a medieval prince ever since he came to live with me and as a result, he views the offering of raw meat not as an invitation to channel his primal lupine urges and improve his gut health, but as a grave insult and an indignity. I've tried to introduce him to bits of raw food a few times, but he just gives me that "how could you?!?!" look and slopes off to his sulking spot under the coat rack in order to glare at me in annoyance.
In that case, and for future reference..... I know a fantastic (but hugely expensive) Canine Dentist in Harrogate, that does root canal work and even crowns for dogs ...... The Vet Dentist Harrogate | A Referral Veterinary Dental Practice When I say 'expensive' ......... £7k expensive for root canal job on one tooth !!!
Obi distrusts anything he hasn’t seen before. I put a wheelbarrow in the garden and he went bonkers. Swing boards outside shops send him crazy. Cardboard he’ll bark at and nibble. Not a fan of tricks either.
When Iggy was about 7 months, he took off in a blind panic at the sight of a dead baby rabbit. He also ate a load of horse manure on the same day.
First vet visits with an issue rather than check up. Weeping eye for month, got lash they growing inwards and aggravates apparently. One of his siblings had similar and needed surgery. So he’s in eye drops and, as he also has inflamed ears (wax build up) on ear drops. £50. Makes human drugs looms cheaper than Panasonic batteries at home bargains.
No such thing as cheap/free puppy dawg Mine was bastard expensive to buy, but would eat anything and never went to the vets.
My Mrs doesn’t like the vet, she always takes the pets into another room to do stuff and isn’t great at bedside manner. She has to take him back next week but has asked to see a different vet.
