Re: [PyrNet-L] Fwd: HEALTH,CARE : recovery from nuetering-long

["Tracy Pribbenow" <pribb@feist.com>]

For what it's worth -- we just had our Pyr, Rodman, neutered this spring. 
We did not encounter anything at all like what you went through with your
boy.  He did really well after the surgery, got around fine.  He was a
little tender, and licked the stitches a lot (we had to keep an eye on
that) but other than that he was fine.  He is also over two years old --
not a pup.
The only thing we've noticed different is that it seems to take him forever
to urinate. He just has a little bitty stream that keeps going, and going,
and going.

Tracy
pribb@feist.com        Bentley, Kansas
http://www.feist.com/~pribb

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> From: Sue433@aol.com
> To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
> Subject: [PyrNet-L] Fwd: HEALTH,CARE : recovery from nuetering-long
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 4:36 PM
> 
> In a message dated 98-07-23 14:00:05 EDT, Sue 433 writes:
> 
> 
>   
>   This subject is still very fresh for me, three weeks ago, we had our
pet Pyr
> Pup, nuetered.  I have always spayed our female dogs before, and never up
> until this point had a male but the females had always bounced back quite
> quickly after the surgery so I really didn't think there would be any
problems
> this time, however I was wrong.  Our vet's policy is to keep the dog over
> night and the next morning after the surgery we "tried" to pick him up.
He
> wasnt able to walk more than a few feet without laying down and then
crying.
> The vet looked at the sutures, said they looked fine but he strongly
suggested
> that he keep him for one more day to which we agreed. The following day,
same
> scenario, we picked him up, he walked 2 or 3 feet then again would lay
down.
> The vet along with two technicians helped me to load him in our van and
said
> perhaps he just needed to work this out and for us to take him home.  He
> wouldn' even attempt to go outside, could hardly walk and we were in
constant
> contact with the vet, he finally agreed to taking the stitches out four
days
> early after looking at the sutures. We also experienced MANY accidents in
the
> house during those ten days (and he was fully housebroken), also he had
> absolutely no appetite either and vomitted at least once a day for the
fist 4
> or 5 days.   It did however have a happy ending when we took him  at last
 to
> get the sutures removed, he slowly came
>   back to the dog he was before the surgery.  Our vet said he never had
this
> type of experience with a large dog before, that usually it was with the
toy
> type dogs, (smaller breeds that sometimes complications would occur.)  We
> asked if possibly he could have just had a low tolerance of pain or was
it a
> specific breed thing, he was unable to answer about the particualr breed,
> becuase he said he didnt have enough experience with them so he then
chalked
> it up to the dog having a low tolerance of pain.  Is this the norm for
this
> type of surgery, Ive have always heard the positives of neutering and
never
> the downside so was just wondering if this was just a rare
occurance.....Sue
>   
> 
>