UhHuhHer
Well-Known Member
Okay, so, I have not been the best rat owner in a lot of ways. I am only in my third year of rat ownership, and I started out knowing next to nothing. Before I joined this forum, I was browsing it frequently as a crash course in rat care, and I think I've gotten to the point where I know what I'm doing for most things. But I hadn't been aware how important spaying females was in preventing tumors and such, so I hadn't done it with my first few. Dot got an emergency spay because of pyometra, but that's it.
I want Lucille to get spayed. I want to reduce the number of health problems she has in the future. But the idea of a surgery where they have to open her up terrifies me, and after how unsire the vet in Lee's Summit was about doing it, I'm really spooked. This will be the first spay I've had done to one of my girls that wasn't a life-saving procedure, and Lucille is my youngest and also so tiny. I'm afraid of losing her.
With a more experienced vet than the Lee's Summit vet, are spays that much more dangerous than neuters? I understand that things can go wrong in any surgery, especially with such tiny animals, but does my fear of this one specific thing make enough sense to prevent me from doing it? I just need to hear from people who've had rats longer and dealt with surgeries more.
I want Lucille to get spayed. I want to reduce the number of health problems she has in the future. But the idea of a surgery where they have to open her up terrifies me, and after how unsire the vet in Lee's Summit was about doing it, I'm really spooked. This will be the first spay I've had done to one of my girls that wasn't a life-saving procedure, and Lucille is my youngest and also so tiny. I'm afraid of losing her.
With a more experienced vet than the Lee's Summit vet, are spays that much more dangerous than neuters? I understand that things can go wrong in any surgery, especially with such tiny animals, but does my fear of this one specific thing make enough sense to prevent me from doing it? I just need to hear from people who've had rats longer and dealt with surgeries more.