Omelet wrote:


> BC's are not good apt. or condo dogs. :-( Not at all. Jewels was at the
> shelter for quite awhile and was a week away from being put down. She
> was about 8 months old when we adopted her.
>
> She came into heat a week later. :-P I did not want to mess with that
> so just paid the vet to board her until her spay date.

Scully is clean as a cat and kept herself so tidy that I might have
missed her first heat if I hadn't gotten an e-mail from a gal who owned
one of her litter sisters, saying that Sassy had come into season. So I
checked and, yup, sure enough...
>
> Last time I had a dog come into heat prior to spaying, a neighborhood
> stray dug into the yard, bred Misty, peed all over her and the front
> porch! It was a royal mess.
>
> I had her spayed anyway and aborted the litter.

Yup. Sad, but not as sad as a litter of puppies sitting on death row in
a shelter.

The third Thursday of the month a local clinic hosts a Feral Sterile and
does assembly line spay and neuters on strays and low income pets.
Biology teachers can request specimens from pregnant spays for use in
the classroom.