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\"SkinnyWhen veterinarians say it’s important to spay your pets, we really mean it! Skinny Minnie is a nine-year-old female cat. She was taken to the local emergency clinic because she wasn\u2019t feeling well and had a bloody discharge from her vulva. An ultrasound showed a pyometra<\/a> – a uterus full of pus.<\/p>\n

She was started on IV fluids, pain medication and antibiotics. Emergency surgery was scheduled at South Mountain Veterinarian Hospital<\/a> the next day.<\/p>\n

Surgery for a pyometra is essentially a modified spay. It\u2019s a bit riskier since there are much larger blood vessels than usual.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, surgery went well and she made a full recovery.<\/p>\n

Skinny Minnie\u2019s owner is now aware that cats (and dogs) should be spayed<\/a> before they are 6 months of age to avoid pyometra, as well as unplanned pregnancies and mammary tumors. Spaying a pet can save her life!<\/p>\n

\"Skinny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When veterinarians say it’s important to spay your pets, we really mean it! Skinny Minnie is a nine-year-old female cat. She was taken to the local emergency clinic because she wasn\u2019t feeling well and had a bloody discharge from her vulva. An ultrasound showed a pyometra – a uterus full of pus. She was started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[69,67,68],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surgery-stories","tag-emergency-surgery","tag-pyometra","tag-spay"],"yoast_head":"\nEmergency surgery averts crisis for unspayed cat | Dr Phil Zeltzman\u2019s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When veterinarians say it's important to spay your pets, we really mean it! 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