Things to Know Before Your Surgery or Dental Cleaning Appointment
1. Your pet should not eat anything after 10pm the night before surgery. Water is fine, just take that up first thing in the morning.
2. Your pet will need to be dropped off for surgery between 7:30am-8:30am. You will meet with a veterinary assistant who will go over your consent form and answer any questions you may have.
3. Let us know before your appointment if you need an estimate. We try to get these as accurate as possible, but every surgery and dental can present other issues that we will need to take care of so remember these are only estimates and your final costs may be lower or higher.
4. We try to send all surgery patients home the same day because we do not have any staff here after hours. In rare cases that we do recommend that your pet stay overnight, there is no additional charge.
5. We do require that all dogs be up to date on their Rabies and Bordetella (kennel cough) vaccines and cats must be up to date on their Rabies. If they are not and you do not provide proof that they have received the vaccine from another veterinarian office, we will give the vaccines while they are here and you will be charged.
6. We will call you after your pet’s surgery is done to give you an update and to let you know what the earliest pick up time will be. We want to make sure they recover from the anesthesia so they usually don’t get released until after 3pm.
Spaying and Neutering can have a positive effect on your pet’s health.
- Spaying your female companion helps prevent uterine infections and breast
tumors, which are malignant or cancerous in about 50 percent of dogs and 90
percent of cats. Spaying your pet before her first heat offers the best protection
from these diseases. - Neutering your male companion prevents testicular cancer and some prostate
problems.
Spaying and Neutering can have a positive effect on behaviors.
- Your spayed female pet won’t go into heat. While cycles can vary, female felines
usually go into heat four to five days every three weeks during breeding season.
In an effort to advertise for mates, they’ll yowl and urinate more
frequently—sometimes all over the house! - Your male dog will be less likely to roam away from home. An intact male will do
just about anything to find a mate, including finding creative ways to escape from
the house. Once he’s free to roam, he risks injury in traffic and fights with other
male animals. - Your neutered male may be better behaved. Unneutered dogs and cats are more
likely to mark their territory by spraying strong-smelling urine all over the house.
Your dog might be less likely to mount other dogs, people and inanimate objects
after he’s neutered. Some aggression problems may be avoided by early
neutering.
Spaying and Neutering are good for your community.
- Approximately 6.3 million companion animals enter U.S. animal shelters
nationwide every year. Of those, approximately 3.1 million are dogs and 3.2
million are cats. Each year, approximately 920,000 shelter animals are
euthanized (390,000 dogs and 530,000 cats). Spaying and Neutering your pet
can help reduce the number of unwanted pets in your community.
Our clinic recommends Spaying and Neutering around six months of age. Please
contact our clinic for questions about spaying and neutering your pet.