Jentarin
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I posted a while ago that when we got Bessa's registration tags in April, we brought home a 10 year old English Lab that we found at the shelter named Lilly. A little overweight but just an awesome disposition. The shelter gave us a little bit of a run-around about whether or not she was spayed ("we think she is, but the scar isn't quite in the right place and she's too fat to check"). A month later, she went into heat.
Two weeks ago, she stopped eating, couldn't move her bowels and was basically miserable. We took her strait to the vet and found that her uterus was so infected that it had swelled to twice its normal size and was pushing her bowels and stomach out of place. One emergency surgery, half a months salary and a week later, she's home, happy and the most active she's been since we've had her. :allg069:
Vet says that she probably had this infection for quite a while and her cycle just exacerbated it, and that there was no way that any vet would have thought that her scar was from a spay.
What kind of a shelter pulls crap like this? Their own policy says that every dog gets neutered/spayed before it is adopted out, and we nearly lose our girl after two months because you don't want to suck up the extra cost of doing it because she's too fat? :banghead:
Two weeks ago, she stopped eating, couldn't move her bowels and was basically miserable. We took her strait to the vet and found that her uterus was so infected that it had swelled to twice its normal size and was pushing her bowels and stomach out of place. One emergency surgery, half a months salary and a week later, she's home, happy and the most active she's been since we've had her. :allg069:
Vet says that she probably had this infection for quite a while and her cycle just exacerbated it, and that there was no way that any vet would have thought that her scar was from a spay.
What kind of a shelter pulls crap like this? Their own policy says that every dog gets neutered/spayed before it is adopted out, and we nearly lose our girl after two months because you don't want to suck up the extra cost of doing it because she's too fat? :banghead: