CASTRATION AND STERILIZATION OF DOGS AND CATS
The sterilization of dogs and cats has become the selective surgical procedure most used to help to improve the quality of life of these animals, since the sterilization can prevent venereal diseases such as TVT (transmissible venereal tumor) that affects dogs and FUS (feline urological syndrome), pyometras and tumors among others.
With sterilization we can control the population of animals in street situations that tends to reproduce themselves without any control and are usually a problem for the habitants of the cities and for this same reason they usually end up sacrificed.
Many owners refuse to sterilize their pest given they only think about the economic cost. The price of this type of surgery is usually high, but if we think about all the benefits that this type of surgical procedure bring to the life of our pets, is definitely worth it. And let’s not forget that sterilization also helps to prevent some diseases, in which the treatment has an even higher cost than the surgery of castration.
ABOUT THE SURGERY
It’s a surgical process that consists on the extraction of the internal reproductive organs (ovaries, uterus and uterine horns in females - 'Ovariohysterectomy' (OVH), and testicles in males - ' Orchiectomy'). This surgery can be performed from the age of 9 to10 months; it’s recommended that the animals are already young adults and that they have reached sexual maturity so they can have optimal or adequate growth.
The surgery is performed by a veterinarian, under general anesthesia and is a procedure that takes approximately 25 to 45 minutes in females, and 20 to 30 minutes in males.
After surgery, the animal remains under the doctor's care until it awakens from anesthesia. After having finished with the surgery, rest and preventive medication should be given for a period of 7 to 10 days, also is necessary to clean the wound every day with antiseptic products to achieve improvement and prompt recovery.
