Crusher and Onyx are both going under the knife on Monday to be spayed and neutered. Crusher will be $78 and Onyx will be about $220 and only because she is in heat. I know I know, not the best time to do it, but keeping Crusher away from her is proving more and more difficult, plus the one drawback to this town is that there are A LOT of loose dogs around. They seem to be coming out of the woodwork and I'm worried that one of my dogs will suffer for it, if I leave her intact. Either by her getting pregnant or Crusher fighting with one of them. One is a very large black shaggy thing that has already challenged him. Besides Clayton doesn't have qualms about it so I feel ok with the decision. He will charge about an extra $50 for it, because of the extra precautions he will take with her, but its pretty routine. I can't help but feel this may be because of the nasty habit people have of letting their dogs roam around here. It really is very overwhelming to try to let my dogs out, one at a time to pee and have to try to time it when there aren't any other dogs outside. And forget taking one for a walk...
This would have been done much much sooner, but I just didn't feel comfortable with the vets in the city. I have never heard anything good about any surgery done there. When Crusher was a pup and had an inverted rectum, he was kept in the clinic for 5 days and had to go back 3 times for different related things. I just really wasn't happy with the whole thing. Besides the prices in the city are atrocious. Crusher would have cost almost $400 because he was a big dog past sexual maturity. And forget about Onyx. I would have had to take out a second mortgage I'm sure. And so I waited until I got here. I just wish it would have been a week or two sooner so she wouldn't have had to go into heat at all. My poor dogs.
So wish us well. As confident as I am in my vets ability, I can't help but worry a little. They are my babies after all.