Are you supposed to feel babies at a month into pregnancy?

[khptown]

This is interesting. I always heard that you can spay a dog while she is pregnant. I didn't know that would abort the puppies. I always thought that they can spay while pregnant so that the animal can still have their young. Huh? Well, I guess you learn something new everyday. Is there a way to spay so that only the ovaries are removed. Wouldn't that allow the animals not to go into heat cycles anymore and not release eggs to prohibit pregnancies, while leaving the uterus? Just questions. I'd hate to give Maybelle more ideas for more stories though. Kind of like tieing a woman's tubes, and not giving her a hysterectomy.

[Ly&Pigs]

Maybelle has been caged, partly due to creating more new member accounts and partly for making up stories. She has been warned not to create any more accounts.

I'm also warning Maybelle publicly to stop making up stories as this forum isn't the place to do so.

[rabbitsncavyluv]

That sounds like it may be a harder surgery?

To prevent breeding is a good reason to neuter but preventing reproductive cancer is another. I'd think the sow or any other female pet could still contract uterine cancer that way? I've seen cases where the vet only removed part of the uterus so the "stump" remaining got infected. It seems safer to do a full spay to me. If the pet is cleared for surgery.

Originally Posted by khptown

This is interesting. I always heard that you can spay a dog while she is pregnant. I didn't know that would abort the puppies. I always thought that they can spay while pregnant so that the animal can still have their young. Huh? Well, I guess you learn something new everyday. Is there a way to spay so that only the ovaries are removed. Wouldn't that allow the animals not to go into heat cycles anymore and not release eggs to prohibit pregnancies, while leaving the uterus? Just questions. I'd hate to give Maybelle more ideas for more stories though. Kind of like tieing a woman's tubes, and not giving her a hysterectomy.

[salana]

Spaying a pregnant animal is a harder surgery than spaying a non-pregnant animal. Spaying during heat is harder too, but probably not as hard as spaying during pregnancy.

A guinea pig's ovaries are very small. Basically the guinea pig uterus is shaped like a fleshy tuning fork, and the fallopian tubes and ovaries are just little strings at the prong of the fork. The two parts of the uterus are filled with little lines of babies when the animal is pregnant. (Humans have a round uterus because we typically only have one baby). It is much easier to see guinea pig ovaries when they have giant cysts (which may stick to the uterus and wrap it around themselves).

Why would you want to leave the uterus, anyway? Without the ovaries, it's just going to be at risk of infection or cancer. Suzi's uterine stump grew its own cyst after her first spay, so she had to have another. I'm not sure a uterus full of babies would be able to deliver them and recover without ovaries to make hormones.

[Ly&Pigs]

I just want to say that Maybelle has been banned for not heeding my directive about creating more accounts. All 5 of her accounts have now been banned.