My one year old rottie is getting spayed Friday and having a cherry eye fixed weather permitting. Is there anything I need to be aware of or advice for me. I have a 3 month old German Shepherd puppy too that I am assuming I will have to keep them apart for a while. Does anyone know how long. Also how long will my dog be woozy from this surgery and when will she be back to her old self? Any help, advice, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not familiar with "cherry eye" but I do know a little bit about anesthesia and animals. Different animals react differently to the drugs, but younger ones usually show less side effects. She may be a little sedated that afternoon but the next day should appear alert. Within 3 days she should be as good as ever. An older animal might have lack of muscle coordination for up to 3 days.

As for keeping her apart from your other dog she should be watched and no humping or excessive exercise should be allowed until the stitches are removed which is usually 10 days after surgery.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to e-mail me!

Your dog should be driving you crazy after maybe two days topps doing things the doctor didn't order. My dog got tired of her stitches and chewed them all out. There was nothing I could do to slow her down. I took her to the vet after she chewed out her stitches. She was fine.

Dogs usually snap back pretty good from the surgery. If your dog doesn't show quick improvement, I would take her back to the vet to make sure nothing was wrong.

I found this one odd. My dog smelled like a dog. I had to give her a bath constantly. After she was spayed, the dog smell stopped. Hormones making a stinky dog?

Basically everything said previously is true.

All our dogs are spayed or neutered before leaving our shelter. Generally, the surgery is done one day and the dog goes home the next. This is true most of the time with vets, although some will let a male go home the same day. With the females, it's a more involved surgery, so usually they stay at the vet overnight so they can keep an eye on them for complications, and to also help keep her confined and more quiet during recovery.

You will probably be surprised how quickly she recovers from the surgery, but do keep the play time between the dogs to a minimum for a few days, anyways.

Your vet may use the type of stitches that are disolvable and do not need to be removed. You do need to keep an eye on her to keep her from chewing at the area. It is possible for them to irritate the area enough to cause a problem - if this is the case, than your vet may want to put an elizabetian collar on her, to prevent her from causing any more problems during healing.

You also don't want to give her a bath until after the stitches are removed and the vet says it's ok.

Thank you for getting her spayed!! Please do the same with the puppy.

I very much agree about having your pets sterilized. It took me four years to get my cat person husband to agree to let me have a yellow lab. She had papers. I just had to send them in to register her. I told him that plenty of people owned labs. We could sell the puppies and let her have one litter.

We both changed our minds about it fast. We loved the dog. Pregnancy and childbirth is no fun. The dog goes nuts looking for her missing pup when you sell it (if I really could sell). We loved the dog so much, we didn't want to put her through that. Not to mention the male hound that lived next door to have animals to go to the pound if an accident occured.

Pets are a huge responsibiliy. You have to be willing to spend time and money on it. Vet bills can be large. Sometime, you will probably have to pay one or two. The shots can add up with more than one pet quickly.

Animals aren't getting a fair shake at the supply and demand problem.

Thanks for the advice. The surgery is scheduled tomorrow. I talked to the vet's office and I was assured that when she comes home they will go over all instructions with me but that I will probably have to keep the two of them separated because they play so rowdy. Interestingly enough I am getting her back the same day. They did say that she would sleep all quite a bit and to keep her in her crate to keep her from getting hurt. I plan on doing that. My daughter wanted to breed her but I definitely didn't want to fool with the mess of having puppies, trying to find good homes for them, etc. etc. I found petfinders.com and she found out how many dogs do not have homes and how many start out with homes and then end up given up. A lot of the dogs given up and available for adoption are rotties. This helped reinforce my decision to spay her and my reasons and help her understand my decision. The puppy, I co-own with someone and have agreed to let them have a litter from her if she turns out breeding quality, her hips past the ofa standards, and some other tests. I can't remember what they are. However, the other owner will be keeping her when she has the pups and making sure they are taken care of properly etc. If she doesn't live up to expectations, she will be spaded and once she has a that litter she will be spaded. I don't want to raise any litters myself and worry about them. Thanks again

So how's the puppy doing since her surgery? I bet she's back to her playful self!

Glitter is back to normal. It's hard to keep her down. It surprized me she was given pain meds. which I faithfully gave her until the other morning I forgot to give her and she didn't seem in any pain so I asked the vet's office when they called to check on her and they said if she didn't need it not to give it to her. My hardest part is trying to keep her calm which they want her kept until the stitches are out. It was funny the first night the puppy laid by Glitter's crate while Glitter slept and Sparkle cried and wiggled herself until she was as close to the crate as she could get. Thanks for asking.

I love that name Glitter! And glad to hear she's doing well. Although I'm sorry she had to take pain meds. I've never known a vet to prescribe that for a surgery. But then, all the animals I've known who have been spayed or neutered have all been young. Still, I can't bear to think that they might have needed pain meds and no-one knew to ask for them.

My dog did just as yours after surgery. You couldn't keep her down. If you ask, they will give you pain medication. My dog didn't need it either. Glad everything is going ok!