Surgery for Bloat?
I am choosing to do it at 5 months as a friend of mine (she is a breeder for Australian shepards) said that OES females who are spayed before their first heat are less likely to develop mammory (sp?) tumors. The vet also recomended a surgery for bloat. He said that he would have to go in to remove her uterus so it would also be a good time to do the bloat procedure as well. (I don't know the actual name for it, but it is where they stitch the pups stomach to the wall of the body to help prevent bloating from occuring) As this is my first OES and first deep chestest animal ever, I'm not sure whether or not this procedure is should be done. I was hoping to get some feed back from all of you and what you might do/have done with your own OES. Thanks! |
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| As far as the bloat goes, have a look at this thread. Someone just asked an almost identical question-- I knew it sounded familiar.
http://www.oes.org/page2/21039~Preventi ... Bloat.html As far as spaying at 5 months, I think that's early for an OES. Spaying too early raises the possibility of early spay incontinence. Some more experienced people will pipe in, too, I'm sure. |
| The surgery of taking the stomach does not stop a dog bloating just helps stop the stomach contorting during a bloat attack.
Read the thread Butterstoch posted it has a discussion on it and you can make a decision wether you want to have it done or not also on that thread is a link that takes you to detailed information for prevention measures for deep chested dogs to help lessen the chances of bloating. Oes are listed as a high risk breed but the operation does not prevent them from bloating, good management lessens the risks. 
Spaying at 5 months way too young, another discussion that has just been ongoing covering neutering and later on in this discussion spaying larger breeds for you to read and make a decision as to when you think is the best time to have your girl done. http://forum.oes.org/viewtopic.php?t=21622&start=0 |
| I have lived through a bloat and I would do the surgery in a heartbeat. Watching Portage suffer like that is a memory that will never fade. And, after the emergency surgery and a three thousand dollar vet bill, we spent a week with a deathly ill dog who didn't seem to be planning to recover at all. It was seven days (and a loss of eleven pounds of body weight) before he ate anything at all.
About six months later one of the vets at our clinic talked about the odds Portage had faced when he walked in the door of that emergency clinic. They were, I believe, less than twenty percent overall. I'm delighted that the emergency vet never mentioned that number (not that we would have given up on him no matter what). We had the option to do the attachment then, but he had another medical condition that was discovered when he was opened up that prevented it. I don't think I'd be eager to open a dog up to do the surgery, but if he or she were already open for something else, it's something I'd certainly do. I know it can't prevent all bloat, but it can reduce the chances, and that's worth it in my book. |
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