Protect Your Female Pet From This Severe, Life-Threatening Disease
Hello, everyone. This week I’d like to talk to you about a common disease in female dogs. This is a disease that can be fatal, if contracted. However, it is also a disease which is easily prevented.
The illness I’m talking about is called a pyometra. It is a severe uterine infection in a female dog. In other words, in a female dog who has not been spayed, the uterus can become infected, causing serious, life-threatening disease.
How common is this disease? Well, in the past 4-5 weeks, I’ve personally treated at least 5 of them in my veterinary hospital. All of these dogs and cats were well cared for and all of them had been perfectly healthy until very recently. What happened? They developed a pyometra and all 5 of them became incredibly sick. Four of them required emergency surgery to remove their uterus and save their lives. Unfortunately, the fifth dog was so ill and so weak by the time she came to my office that we were forced to put her to sleep instead of allowing her to suffer.
How could this have been prevented? Very easily. Simply spaying these pets would have prevented all of them from contracting this disease that threatened their lives and made them so sick.
So, the moral of the story here is that there really is a good reason to spay your female pet. Besides, the obvious benefit of not getting pregnant, spaying your female pet also provides many health benefits for your pet. Among these benefits is preventing the occurrence of a pyometra.
Of course, if your pet is a breeding animal, spaying is not an option and a pyometra is one of the dangers you have to accept for your pet as a breeder. But, if you’re not breeding your pet, there’s really no good reason not to spay her as long as she’s healthy enough to undergo surgery.
Now, is your female pet spayed? What excuse are you using to put off having her spayed? Lack of time? Money that could be better spent on something else? Lack of motivation? Thinking of breeding her, but not sure? Is that excuse worth risking your pet’s life? Don’t you owe it to your pet to do everything in your power to safeguard her health?
If your female pet is not spayed, do yourself and your pet a favor. Go to the telephone right now, call your pet’s veterinarian and schedule an appointment for her. She’ll be healthier and happier for it. And you’ll rest easy knowing you did a good thing for your pet.
(BTW, those of you with male pets don’t get a "free pass" here either. There are many health benefits to take advantage of by neutering your male pet as well.)