When we had our last dog, Millie, our vet strongly advised us to have her spayed on the grounds that
she would not get pyometra and much less likely to develop mammary tumours later on in life. We took his advice, but lost Millie at seven following years of battling Thrombocytopenia, a terrible disease
causing reduced blood platelets and internal bleeding. Since losing Millie I have spent alot of time reading about Thrombocytopenia and wondering why she developed this awful disease. I have since read that cocker spaniels are predisposed to this disease, and although rare, it is usually seen in female middle age spayed dogs.
We now have Willow and after two seasons and a false pregnancy we are finding it so difficult in
deciding to get her spayed. In fact she has been booked in at our vets twice for the operation and each time I cancelled because I am tormented by what happened to our Millie, and so frightened something similar may happen to Willow.
Am I being irresponsible in deciding not to have Willow spayed, at least for the foreseeable future?
It would be a big help to know how others feel.