Awesome job Dr. Lydia 👍 I love watching you do surgeries because you explain everything you're doing in detail. Yaaay, one more cat that can't reproduce, which means less kitties that end up in shelters and have to be uthenized. I love ya'll ❤ Jennifer
Dr Lydia, I am in awe. I volunteer my time and energy and money to doing TNR. To watch and learn more in depth at what I catch these cats for is so rewarding feeling. Thank you for taking care of her. 🖤🖤🖤
Wow that gives me so much respect for the vet that spayed my cat. She was a rescue and she was done when she was four months old so much littler than momma. Her body parts must have been sooo tiny. Mad skills. She is absolutely the best cat ever btw
That was an interesting video. I was surprised at how quick it was and how little bleeding there was. Neutering is something all pets should have done. Aside from the behavioral advantages, it greatly reduces the chances of some very nasty forms of cancer.
Thanks Dr Lydia!! I love watching vets work. When I was a teenager I’d hang out at a Veterinarian’s clinic and watch him. I got to watch him neuter my Chow Chow. I also watched him spay a mama cat that had kittens, my mother wasn’t happy with me when I brought them home in a jar of liquid. Haha
I do TNR, so this is really interesting to watch. The last clinic here had 47 cats in one day. It's amazing how fast vets can do these operations. So cool.
I loved seeing this ! I am the vetting coordinator for a cat and kitten rescue (Winnipeg Kitten Adoption) and one of my jobs is to book appointments with the vet and often am reassuring adopters and fosters about the process. I would love to see a neuter procedure as well!
I love watching vet procedures. I used to work for a veterinarian. I have an entry-level tattoo gun that would work well to mark spays. I haven't used it. Lol. Maybe I'll email you, to see if you are interested and I would donate it to you.
Good job! I always wonder how it feels for you to switch from elephants to horses, and even more to tiny beings like Mama. I know vets are as meticulous when they treat an abcess in an elephant's toe, but the reduced size of your new working "canvas" ... I don't know, I often think I would feel wonder at the difference for a long time after I switched. Nature's creatures are so wonderfully varied 🙂
This is so interesting and it’s great to watch the vets at their best! I was just wondering….. when our female cats have been spayed (uk) there’s only a 2cm scar on the side of their abdomen. It’s the first time I’ve seen a midline spay.
I have 2 rescue kittens. One is a colour point (white with tan tail, feet, nose and ears) and they did her spay like Dr Lydia did. But our other kitten they did a flank spay. I've never seen it before. From my research, I saw that they do spays on tummies with colour points as it can change their coat. But I was wondering if there are benefits of one over the other.
No Dr Lydia DID remove the uterus, she just didn't show that on this video. I worked for a vet 50 years ago and I was watching closely to see her remove it. When she started to suture the cat up, I was taken aback. What in the heck did I just NOT see? But after she was all finished Dr. Lydia mentioned that she removed the uterus also. It may have been that that part of the video was left out for many different reasons. But when a cat or dog has a spay surgery the uterus, the ovaries and the uterine horn are removed. They no longer need any of these things and in females there is a slight chance of infection if the uterus is left. If that happens and it's not caught quickly enough, the animal will die. I don't know if this is a thing anymore or not, but 50 years ago there were some vets somewhere in the United States who were doing vasectomies on male dogs. The dogs were sterile since the sperm couldn't leave the testes to impregnate a female dog. But you still have the same male aggressive tendencies. I've never personally known of anyone who has know of anyone who has done this type of surgery on a dog, but it was a rather hot topic when I was working for the vet. Why? Because the cost would have been cheaper for the owner, since it didn't take as long to do the vasectomy as to neuter a dog. Plus the recovery would have been much shorter. But when I had male dogs, I wanted the quieter temperament that went with the neutering. Same with male horses, I would much rather ride a gelding (castrated stallion/male equine) than either a mare (girl) some are rather flighty or downright mean while in heat or a stallion (is that a MARE? is that a Mare? is that a MARE?). With geldings there are no hormones to get in the way of getting them to pay attention to what you want them to do. And that's my two cents on the subject. 🙂 EDIT: edited a sentence for clarity
This is a female cat, not a male one. So the tissue she was talking about has the potential to have the cat come into a false heat. Not like a proud cut stallion, which is a whole 'nother kind of animal! 😆
I think it depends on the breed and the health of the pet. Here in Colorado all dogs and cats that end up in a shelter have to be spayed or neutered before being adopted out. In some breeds it helps them to avoid things like mammary (breast) cancer. And when the uterus is removed, that takes care of uterine cancer risk. Worked for a vet 50 years ago and things have changed a lot since then. But as far as I can tell from this video with Mama cat, the cat spays are very close to the way we did it back then.(with the exception of the green tattoo). We had no way of knowing if a female had been spayed or not if we couldn't find a scar. So sometimes we "spayed" one that had already been spayed. So the after care was the same. I would highly suggest talking to a veterinarian for his/her recommendation on your particular pet. Some purebred registered small female dogs are too small to have a litter without having a caesarian or some of the overly short snouted breeds have the same problems. In my personal opinion ALL mutts need to be spayed/neutered. Only the top 10%+/- of the purebreds be allowed to be bred with the rest being spayed or neutered. If we spay/neuter all of them we would no longer have any dogs/cats left. But I think almost all backyard breeders and ALL puppy mills should be banned. And don't even get me started on having you pet have "just one litter so the kids can see the cycle of life." If that's why you want your pet to have a litter, then you need to take them to the nearest shelter to see how a lot of the dogs and cats end up euthanized because there aren't enough homes for the surplus we already have.
Do vets still perform spays through the flank? That always sucked. No tummy spay scar, no tattoo, leading to unnecessary procedures. Tummy is better, imo!
I've only heard about it, and I do TNR, so I've had probably upwards of 75 female cats spayed in the Las 15 years. So I guess it isn't common in shelter med situations.
