Personally, I wouldn't care if the vet care was free, I'd sooner take my pet to a qualified vet I trust and then bill the spay clinic for the costs if it's discovered to have been a botched spay. Sometimes you get what you pay for.


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Went in today for second round of testing. We told her we had found blood spots on the floor around the house and she asked what it looked like... we said it looked like BLOOD. (
We ask questions like that at work sometimes. It's not as ridiculous as it first appears. What we're wanting to know is it dark/light colored blood, watered down blood, blood with other colors/mucus in it. Apparently to the vet it makes a big difference at times.


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They first did a vaginal swab and there was a lot of blood. I don't know what she did, but she came back out and said they would take her, and since they had time, they would do another spaying. (
If they didn't at least suspect that it was an incomplete spay then you'd think they would have called it 'exploratory surgery' rather than admit to incomplete spaying. Guess they got themselves on that one.

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a low cost clinic must perform a high volume of surgeries each day. This limits the individual attention a patient can receive if an “assembly line” approach is used. Often these are the situations where only the ovaries are removed and the uterus is left behind so as to save time or where the entire spay is performed through a tiny incision only a half inch or so long so as to save time closing (and sacrifice inspection of the abdomen for bleeding).


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She said while they're in heat is the best time (Uh, I've always heard it's NOT good). (
Being in heat is the WORST time to spay. Not only is the surgery more difficult because the organs are all swelled up, and the blood vessles are larger, but it also increases the chance of an incomplete spay because the parts are harder to see.


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She also said that some dogs are born with extra ovarian tissue and sometimes some gets left behind and seeds into other tissue (what a load of crock!!! She's just trying to cover her @$$).
I have read something previously about extra ovaries/ovarian tissue, however from what I'd read the condition is rare. I don't remember reading anything about it 'seeding' into other tissue though. I appologize that I can't find the link to the article I read, I believe it was either by JAVMA or AAHA but I can't remember.


I hope the second surgery goes ok and your furbaby does alot better this time. Keep us updated.