Pyometra - NOT a disease to fool around with!

[kathryn]

Originally Posted by 14+kitties

Thanks folks for sharing your stories. It does this weary heart good to see how much a lot of people truly care for their pets by getting them spayed early before this disease hits. I wonder what the percentage would be for pyometra if more people left spaying till it was too late. I'm so very glad spaying seems to be catching on.

I've never heard of a pyometra being "treated" with antibiotics for long term, maybe to hold over for a few days until a spay can be done... but that's like trying to re attach an arm with a band-aid.. it's not really going to cut it. Any responsible veterinarian would recommend immediately spaying if the animal was healthy enough for surgery... and even if not healthy enough you still kind of have to do it anyways

There is just SO much pus and infection involved with a pyometra it just is not practical to think you can just give a dog or cat a few pills and everything will be okay. If ANY other un-necessary organ was infected would we even be having this discussion?!??!?! I mean, when people have their appendix burst or whatever, do you just send them home with a few pills and tell them to wait and see? NO, you rush in and get that taken care of. Why is it SOO much different with a uterus??? Clearly dogs and cats live JUST fine without them... why try to save an organ you don't even need?