No wonder female dogs are sore during recovery from conventional spay surgery – removal of the ovaries and the uterus requires the veterinarian to physically manipulate and cut away quite a bit of tissue. Removal of the ovaries alone is faster and less traumatic, and the patients recover more quickly.
A New and Safer Way to Spay Your Puppy
Fewer complications result from removal of only the dog’s ovaries.
Making a fresh look at the things we take for granted can be wonderfully enlightening. Sometimes, the little light bulb overhead begins to sizzle and sparkle, illuminating a new and better way of doing things. Consider this example: When some savvy veterinarians took a fresh look at performing spays, a surgery we’ve been doing the exact same way for decades, they came up with a revised technique that accomplishes all of the objectives of the spay surgery with fewer complications. How cool is that?
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