Gina I thought I'd relate a story about one of my poodles when she was spayed. I took her in at 5 1/2 months for the surgery and got the call that afternoon that all was OK. Picked her up and brought her home and noticed that her two front bottom teeth were gone!! I immediately called the vet and he had a very nonchalant attitude. Said "It must have happened as she was coming out of the anesthesia. I saw blood in her mouth and figured she bit her tongue. She was also biting on the bars of the cage and probably did it to herself." I asked him why he didn't investigate to see where the blood was coming from and he said she was "in a frenzy." I checked with another vet and they said that dogs do come out of anesthesia strangely sometimes but vet #1 certainly should have investigated further. That was my point exactly! Things happen, but please why didn't he check her when she was bleeding. Needless to say, we changed vets...not because of his incompetence to do the surgery but for his lack of concern to investigate a problem! Hope your vet is more sympathetic to Merlin's problems than my former vet was.