We have found a number of Vets that do this procedure routinely and some for the local Human Societies
and I have seen cats and puppies run around 1 hour after their spay and or neuter with no apparent discomfort.
The choice is yours if you wish to have one of our pups you plan on purchasing, have an early spay (hysterectomy) or neuter (castration)
commonly referred to as Pediatric Spay/Neuter by us, through our Veterinarian, with us assuming all risks and costs involved.
You will have to let us know prior to 4 weeks of age so we can book enough time at our Veterinarian for the surgery.
As you know this procedure could cost you between $200.00-$1,000.00 at a later date, so having us do it would be a huge cost savings to you. Why we would offer Pediatric Spay/Neuter at an additional expense for us? Because we feel after our research that our pups would be healthier and recovery quicker,
use less anesthetic, have less scarring, less loss of self, less stress and financial strain on owners and overall with less trauma for the puppy.
Puppies 1 hour after spays and neuters
Puppies 1 hour after spays and neuters
Puppies 1 hour after spays and neuters
Puppies 1 day after surgery
Puppies 2 days after surgery
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Puppies 7 days after Spay and 7 days after a neuter
Bijou Poodles has been offering this proceedure since 1999
and we have kept in contact with several of our Puppy People all of which have healthy adult Poodles.
However, all our pups are from healthy, health tested, great tempered adults that have excellent conformation.
A puppy is no more physically done growing by 16 or 24 weeks any more than they are at 7 weeks.
so the additional few weeks to wait for a spay or neuter just does not make any sense.
Bijou Poodles as a result of our Study and consultation with our Vet feel that this proceedure
is a desirable thing to do and offer to our puppy people with us assuming all costs
and all responsibility for and during the proceedure.
... Brown male had Pediatric Neuter....................................Brown Male Littermate that didn't have Pediatric Neuter
You can see that the altered male did mature to be taller and leaner (although also has less coat) than his sibling who was left intact
People worry that this early procedure might stunt growth.
In fact, research shows that the dogs will actually get a little Taller and leaner.
The reason for this is that the long bones tend to grow for a slightly longer period.
Since this extra growth is NOT caused by more rapid growth,
but instead by prolonged growth, the implication is that this might be a good thing in our breed.
It is known that when growth proceeds slowly over a longer period, the bone density (strength) increases.
SUMMERY OF PEDIATRIC SPAY/NEUTER:
The Puppy will recover within the hour
The Puppy will requiring less anesthesia
The Puppy will have less surgery time
The Puppy will have minimal if any scarring
The Puppy will not have that huge belly often seen in older dogs after a spay.
The Owner does not have to be faced with any guilt about subjecting their puppy to surgery.
The Owner will not miss time off of work to bring the puppy to the Vet office.
The Owner will not have to worry about a puppy's recovery after surgery
The Owner will not have to take time off of work to get to the Vet 7 days later for suture removal.
The Owner will not have to deal with unexpected heat cycles (bleeding).
The Owner will not have to suddenly find extra money for surgery.
The Owner will save $200.00- $1,000.00 for cost of Surgery.
The Breeder has added expense that they will be assuming or including in the price.
The Breeder will deal with the recovery time with possible frequency of urination, for 3 days
The Breeder has to find an experienced Vet
The Breeder has peace of mind that their pups are being enjoyed as loving pets as they were intended
In the 1940s and 1950s:
veterinarians had primitive anaesthetics, monitoring equipments, and surgical tools. Anaesthetics were not terribly safe, especially for young animals, sophisticated surgical instruments
that are now used to find a tiny uterus did not exist. Veterinarians were mainly men, working with horses and cattle, heavy, physical work. They had big hands, and had to find that uterus with their fingers. Since a uterus is bigger and much easier to find after an estrus (heat, when females will bleed and when they will get pregnant this can happen at 4-24 months of age) the advice of waiting until after the first estrus (heat) still persists decades later. Often the practitioner selected the spay/neuter age of the animals based on his convenience and what was appropriate to his skill and equipment.
Now jump forward to the 1960s. It is discovered that the incidence of mammary cancer (which is four times higher in intact bitches than in human women) can be reduced by over 96.4 percent, if we spay before the first estrus (heat). So the veterinary profession begins teaching this, and now with better equipment, better drugs, and safer methodologies,
veterinarians began to spay before the first estrus (heat). Determining when the first heat begins presents problems, however. It differs among large dogs (4-14 months), small dogs (around 6 months), and cats (as early as 4-5 months). So Six months became the generalised standard age for spay and or neuter,
with the goal being to neuter the majority of dogs before their first estrus (heat).
Now in the 20th Century:
Veterinarians discovered that puppies and kittens can be done at 5-8 weeks of age with phenomenal results. Of course the age which a Vet is comfortable doing this procedure is contingent
upon their surgical skills as this is not a taught skill, but a learned one.
Cons of Pediatric Spay/Neuter
There is a study often quoted done in the article by Canine Sports (http://www.caninesports.com/SpayNeuter.html)
illustrating some pretty serious downsides with doing Pediatric spay and or neuters.
However I want you to consider that the study doesn't state if the Golden Retriever pups (1444 pups)
in the study were from parents who were OFA'd hips, elbows, shoulders, patella, heart
so we don't know if the pups in the study were from sound healthy breeding stock to begin with.
The study also does not say if the parents were champions so we do not know
if the parents had proper conformation (proper structure) or not to begin with
or if this was even evaluated in any manner
The study also does not say if the parents were all temperament tested,
so we have no idea what the temperaments were on the parents that produced
the pups, so we have no idea what the temperaments were in the lines to start with.
The study also doesn't tell you what the COI of the pups were, so we have no idea if the
pups are a result of an inbreeding, therefore more susceptible to genetic problems to start with.
In Conclusion
Studies can be deceiving.
If poorly structured OR unhealthy OR mentally unstable OR crippled dogs were bred OR inbred together
to produce 1444 pups for specimens for this study, well,
they would have serious lifetime mental and OR physical health issues
whether the procedure was done on them or not.
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