Courtesy: Animal People
>In the past 3 to 4 months I have noticed a considerable number of
>pups in the age group of 2 to 5 months being neutered and left back.
This is precisely the optimal age for sterilizing dogs.
If the surgery is performed by a competent surgeon, in
strictly aseptic conditions, pups of this age normally recover the
fastest, with the least risk of surgical complication.
If sterilization surgery is being done in a half-assed manner
by bumbling incompetents, who make unnecessarily large incisions and
try to compensate for what they lack in surgical precision with
equally imprecise misuse of antibiotics, then no age is the proper
age.
The whole issue here, in short, is not the age of the dog,
but the skill of the surgeon. It is high time that Indian ABC
programs instituted quality control sufficient to exclude the
participation of any veterinarian who cannot complete a castration or
keyhole spay in less than 20 minutes, cannot maintain asepsis, and
cannot suture in a manner that keeps the wound closed.
These are not complicated matters -- if the surgeon gives a
damn about providing effective & humane service.
--
Merritt Clifton
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