In article >,
Kathleen > wrote:

> 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...

Their vulva is generally swollen.
Jewely left drops of blood in the hallway.

> >
> > 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.

True, but Misty was spayed as soon as her heat was up so the litter was
not really even developing yet. I did the same with Samantha the cat.
She got loose when she came into heat the first time and finally came
home reeking of tomcat. Little slut. <g>

I'm a big proponent of spay/neuter. The number of cats and dogs put to
sleep every year due to overpopulation numbers in the millions. It's a
travesty.

>
> 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.

I've seen the bodies of adult cats in the comparative anatomy classes
when I was in college.

I could NEVER dissect a cat. I just could not do that. :-(

Baby pigs maybe...
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