Well I'm Mad Right Now...

You know the crappy thing about the "white stuff" is when they jump up on you and ya don't know it's there!!!  LOL  My boy Charlie gets it often and he LOVES being in the lap or laying across me on the couch! 

Seems to me that Simba is doing great so have no worries.  It does suck that they lied to you and the ultrasound is a GREAT idea just so you know what's what.

Johnny&Tessy

You know the crappy thing about the "white stuff" is when they jump up on you and ya don't know it's there!!!  LOL  My boy Charlie gets it often and he LOVES being in the lap or laying across me on the couch! 

Seems to me that Simba is doing great so have no worries.  It does suck that they lied to you and the ultrasound is a GREAT idea just so you know what's what.

 

Honestly I haven't noticed it on him, then again I don't make a point to look down there. :P That is pretty gross though! 

 Yeah I think he's doing well so I'm not TOO worried, I'm just mad more than anything. Yeah for once I'm agreeing with my mom spastic attitude whenever she finds anything slightly wrong with him. :P Hopefully he doesn't have to get surgery again, but if he does guess who will be getting pampered? :P 

punkchica321

Hm that's interesting. I always get confused with the whole 'when the right time' is. Some people say 8 weeks is too early. So confusing. :-/ 

Misha's mother killed puppies that left and then came back. He also lived alone only for 3 days before his sister Lassie joined him, and he could see his mother through the fence and sort of play with her that way.

As far a neutering, I'd have preferred to wait a year to a year and a half, but my parents couldn't or rather wouldn't contain him and so I made the right decision for him given my situation. The vet who said they'd neuter him at 8 weeks? They're more rural, and they want to get everything done as early as safely possible to help cut down on roaming dogs and unwanted puppies, but that simply wasn't going to be a problem for Misha. I can understand both sides of the arguement, their hearts are in the right place.

Spazzy

It drives me crazy that they are allowed to be altered so young

It drove me crazy, euthanizing entire litters of puppies and kittens, on a daily basis, when I worked at our county shelter. I'm all for early spay/neuter.

I can't imagine any vet doing a neuter, seeing only one testicle, and then removing just the one and going on their merry way...

 we do a lot of post adoption neuters for the shelter at the clinic I work at..any cryptorchid dogs or cats are noted, and the owner called before surgery to let them know, since it's a more invasive surgery.  Not something you want to be surprised with upon pickup.

grab01

I can't imagine any vet doing a neuter, seeing only one testicle, and then removing just the one and going on their merry way...

Seems like it'd be easy to tell, but, one of my best friends worked as a tech for a while.  A guy came in furious because his dog's neuter surgery only removed one testicle.  She would joke, "How hard is it to count to TWO?"

Harry was neutered at 8 weeks at the (no-kill) shelter from where we adopted him.  They won't adopt out an un-altered animal, so their thinking is, the sooner they can get them up for adoption, the sooner they can pull another animal from a kill shelter to fill the empty spot.  Medically ideal? No.  Practical from their standpoint?  Absolutely.

 I totally get neutering before sending them out and doing it younger. You can't always trust people to bring them back for it. I know some shelters here either do it before you can take them, or they charge more if it's not done, and will give you a portion of money back upon getting it done. When we have gotten dogs that weren't spayed or neutered, it's generally been done around 6 months. The vet clinic we use regularly, who did Luke's neutering, usually waits until 6 months. They prefer to do that because at that point, if they haven't lost all their baby teeth yet, they'll pull them. If I wanted to, and really pushed it, they would do it earlier. I preferred that to putting him under twice though.

My shelter does all at 8 weeks - dogs and cats.

Casey was done at 10 months, when I got him through the humane society. The vet I work for prefers to wait until 4 months, at least.

As far as lying - I don't think it's fair to be 'mad' at the shelter. you don't know the age of a dog - unless you were there to watch the birth. It's all a GUESS. 

I just can't imagine a vet missing one...now, I have had several owners call me on the emergency phone concerned about the magically appearing testicles on their neutered dog, to discover they were seeing the glands at the base of the penis.