Hi

Juno, my yellow lab, is having her first season at 13 months.
The bleeding is almost over ( trust MY dog to get spots up the walls! :rolleyes: ). I have just finished my lunch and had the dogs watching me. When I finished eating Juno stood up and where she had been sitting there was a small runny puddle of evil smelling greenish fluid!

That's not usual is it? ( It's been 10 years since I had an in season bitch. )

I have rung the vets and the receptionist asked if I could bring her in, so I am taking her down there now... but before I go I wanted to leave this message asking if anyone has ever seen this?

My poor pup, her first season and she has suffered. I have never seen such a sad looking dog in all my life! She goes into a corner and will sit looking at me with that sad lab face. :( I was going to breed from her, but don't think I can cope with MY guilt every 6 months. She's gone from a very happy outgoing dog to a sad whiny one. Is that normal too? I can't remember my Ebony doing that. Juno appears well in other respects, eating etc.. she's just SAD.

I could get her hip score results while I am down at the vets too...

Sharon... In a quandry....

see what vet says eh? :s

This sounds like a classic pyometra and I am pleased you are taking her to the vets.

Be prepared for an emergency spay, so I would forget the hip scoring!!

Jayne

Hope everything goes OK for her :-)

Hi Jayne, the vet is keeping her in and is going to give her an ultra sound to see if there is any more fluid inside. Pyometra was his diagnosis too. He also warned me she may need an emergency spay if it looked bad. I'm prepared. I just want my bouncy girl back. :'(

I am so sorry Sharon, its a rotten thing to happen to her, but at least you won't have the quandry about leaving her intact and her being miserable at each season.

Looking on the bright side, it is not impossible for some pyometra's to be dealt with with very strong antibiotics, so I'll keep my fingerscrossed for both you and your girl.

Best wishes

Jayne

Hope all works out for her and if she is spayed at least you know she will be OK. The antibiotics may well work.

Hoep she is back with you soon

Lucy
xx

That sounds exactly like my girl had, she ended up with an emergency spaying and it was her first season too :-(

The vet has just rang me after doing the scan and he says that one of the uterine horns has fluid inside it. He is a fantastic vet and explained everything to me, half of which I can't remember now :o

He says she is young and has personally never seen pyometra in a dog her age of 1 year 2 months and asked me if I was going to breed from her, I said I wanted to, but if this was going to happen again at the next season I would rather have her spayed and give her a happier life. He didn't really want to spay her then and there as she was infected and she is not SO ill that it is life threatening, so he is going to treat her with anti-biotics.

I am just off to go and get her back for lots of love and supper! :D Will keep you updated. She has to go back on Friday and between then and now I will be watching her like a hawk!

Sharon

Many years ago, I had a bitch with a pyometra after her first season at 7 months old! A beautiful bitch who was speyed. She lived a happy and healthy life until she was 14!

When I got back from work tonight she presented me with a ball (not letting me have it of course) and a wiggly bum tail wag. I realised then that she hadn't been doing that for a few nights! She's looking much brighter now so the antibiotics are already working. Maybe she wasn't sad due to her heat, it was the pyo?

I will get her spayed; it's frustrating and upsetting me, but once done, the worry that the infection will happen again will be gone. I had my other bitch spayed when she was a year. She's a happy and hale almost 11 years young.

I shall get a dog dog next instead. I've had a taste of the showing lark and was enjoying it. I shall carry on training Ju, she's done her bronze GC and I want to try the silver with her next year.

You will still be able to show her, the rules changed some years ago, and they do not now need to have registered progeny in order to be shown ater neutering. You have to inform the Kenenel Club, sho will write back giving permission to show. It is probably better for her to get over the infection and be spayed some 12 weeks after the start of this season, adn Open Pyo's are a lot less dangerous than closed ones.

My Lab bitch Moose has had repeated infections which are Season related. She has now had three seasons but we have never been able to get her spayed yet due to the timing of the infections. We are crossing our fingers that in the next month and a half she will be clear to get her spayed. The vets has said she will be unfortunately prone to this now as she has shown the tendancy for these infections.

Hope the antibiotics work and she is back to normal soon !

Lucy

Thanks for that info brainless, but Juno never really liked showing much anyway, even if I did! I'd stopped going to shows with her as she is such hard work in the ring. (She did her last one at WELKS and more or less behaved, so I thought I'd end it with good memories.) Never mind, she's still got some discharge but it's a lot less than it was yesterday. I took her to some (very deserted) woods today and let her stretch her legs a bit.
Lucy, Your vet confirmed what I suspected, that the infectio may return next season. Giving the antibiotics is easy, she eats them like sweets! I never had a dog do that with pills before.

~ Sharon