Guidelines Castrate/Spaying - St Peters Vets

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Castrate

  • Small dogs from 6 months of age
  • Large dogs from 1 year
  • Day Surgery
  • Surgical wound is glued so there are no external sutures to be removed.
  • Buster collar offered to prevent wound being licked!

Spaying

  • Either before first season; or 4 months after season (so that signs of possible phantom pregnancy have resolved)
  • Day Surgery
  • Buster collar offered to prevent wound being licked!

Castrate

  • From 6 months of age
  • Day surgery
  • No stitches to be removed

Spaying

  • From 6 months of age
  • Day surgery
  • Surgical wound is glued so there are no external sutures to be removed
  • Buster collar offered to prevent wound being licked!

Castrate

  • From 4 months of age
  • Day Surgery
  • Surgical wound is glued so there are no external sutures to be removed.

Spaying

  • From 4 months of age
  • Hospitalised after surgery to monitor defaecation. This is normally for one night only.
  • Surgical wound is glued so there are no external sutures to be removed.