Myra, I appreciate what you are saying and find Dr. Hutchison interesting and informative..however..not all bitches are beyond breeding age at 5 or 6..It really does depend on the bitch...we have to remember the "rules" often don't work because of the individuality of each animal. (human included) Jo Ann Speaking of smoking..didn't doctors recommend it as relaxing long ago???
> The other thing that I keep wondering about is why the pet people don't > understand that we often seek second opinions in medical matters and > frequently do not take the advice of our MDs based on other information we > have. (any of you out there still smoking??) We have the option of > studying, reading, talking to repro specialists and making decisions that > make sense to us. We won't wait until one of our girls is 2.5 years old to > breed her. We will breed her on her 3rd or 4th season depending on how > often she comes in, and that usually puts her at just about 2 years of age > give or take a month or so. That is the maximum number of seasons that we > will allow the corrosive effects of progesterone on her uterus. In > addition to that reasoning, we won't be breeding our girls at 5 or 6 years > of age. According to Dr. Hutchison, the definition of an older bitch is any > bitch over 5. My guess is that none of these "pet people" have ever even > seen a bitch with pyrometra, much less lost one to it. Myra > > > ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
