Maybe's spay went well yesterday - she's acting kind of
tentative, which is good thing to do when healing, I think. Not
her regular "balls to the walls" attitude. She gets chicken for
dinner.

I also had her hips checked for OFA submission, checking the box
that said the result would be submitted even if it wasn't good.
The vet told me that, in his opinion, Maybe's hips looked good.

Does anyone know how long it'll take for official OFA results to
make it back to me?

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--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

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Rocky wrote:


Does anyone know how long it'll take for official OFA results to
make it back to me?

Seems to me it was about 10-14 days with Franklin. Amazingly fast IMO.

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Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

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Janet Boss wrote:
Seems to me it was about 10-14 days with Franklin. Amazingly fast IMO.

It was over a month for Crow, but this was several years
ago.
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Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

Rocky wrote:
Maybe's spay went well yesterday - she's acting kind of
tentative, which is good thing to do when healing, I think. Not
her regular "balls to the walls" attitude. She gets chicken for
dinner.

Wishing comfortable and fast healing for Maybe.

I hope she enjoyed her chicken!

Tara Green said in
rec.pets.dogs.health:

Wishing comfortable and fast healing for Maybe.

She has officially bounced back as of today.

No cone, no licking. I hope I'm not getting ahead of myself,
but she seems to be a good healer.

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--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

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Rocky wrote:


No cone, no licking. I hope I'm not getting ahead of myself,
but she seems to be a good healer.

Marcie was very good about her spay. No issues at all. She slept it
off day two (they kept her overnight) on my bed. We did the requisite
leash walks only period, which annoyed her a bit of course, but we never
needed a cone or any other restriction. The only problem we had was
with pain meds. Stopped them immediately when they made her pretty
explosive.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

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Janet Boss wrote:
Marcie was very good about her spay. No issues at all.

I have to say that I've never had post-surgery issues with
any of my dogs, other than their lack of interest in staying
sedentary. No chewing, licking, messing with the sutures,
etc. I know it happens but I wonder how common it is in
reality.
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Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

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(Melinda Shore) wrote:


I have to say that I've never had post-surgery issues with
any of my dogs, other than their lack of interest in staying
sedentary. No chewing, licking, messing with the sutures,
etc. I know it happens but I wonder how common it is in
reality.

The only problems I've seen in others' dogs is if there is a bad stitch
or staple or infection. Several of my dogs have come to me altered.
Some many months before, some freshly. Of my current 3, only Marcie has
been with me for her surgery. I've had a bunch of fosters altered while
with me though, and no issues at all, except the sedentary part.
Especially with a multi-dog household, restricting rowdy play can be
challenging once the first day passes.

Of course, I've unfortunately gone through other surgeries with dogs as
well. Franklin's blockage (2 of those) and tumor surgeries (3 of
those). The blockage surgeries were on his tummy of course, and the
stapled incisions long. No issues with either one though. The tumor
surgeries were fairly minor. 2 other dogs had multiple tumor surgeries
as well. Although Lindy's mast cell incisions were pretty big, the
hardest to deal with was 9 [benign] tumors we took off Teddy, my first
Golden. A t-shirt helped a lot, to keep those clean and dry and avoid
scratching as they healed. We tried a cone one day and he managed to
lock himself in the bathroom, so we gave that up pretty quickly!

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Melinda Shore wrote:
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Janet Boss wrote:

Marcie was very good about her spay. No issues at all.


I have to say that I've never had post-surgery issues with
any of my dogs, other than their lack of interest in staying
sedentary. No chewing, licking, messing with the sutures,
etc. I know it happens but I wonder how common it is in
reality.

At my house it's common. Viva has always been total and complete hell on
any incision. She despises the "cone of shame" and will barely move with
it, but if I leave her out of it even for two minutes she will get the
wound open. I swear she just slashes at them with her teeth. And since
she has always been accident prone, it's been an issue.

Hope Maybe sails right through.

Bella wanted to stay on her pillow in her crate and she seemed to
appreciate the pain meds for a few days. She gave us dirty looks and
was apparently uncomfortable.

We did her spay as early as we could, so I'm sure that makes a huge
difference in recovery...