Concern for the granddog but all is well

[Marthe48]

My daughter texted that their little dog might have a uti and had a vet appt for her. She is a stray they adopted last summer after she turned up at their house. At the time they got her, they took her to a vet and got her checked out. The vet said she was spay and treated her for fleas. She's been a fine dog, and no trouble until she had some symptoms yesterday. My son-in-law took her to the vet at 3 p.m today. My daughter told me this evening that the dog is in heat. We didn't think of that because of the vet's assessment last summer, also been years since we've been around an unaltered dog. My son-in-law told my daughter he is never taking an animal to the vet again. (I'm kind of snickering, can just picture the scene!)

[Karadeniz]

1. HA! I once had a foster kitten whom I kept because I spread goat sore mouth to her and it

made it impossible for her to keep food dowm. Jolie. I had to go through gymnastics for months to feed her! One vet thought she had megaesophagus, but another thought she'd get past it. She did. Right before her eating cratered, when she was only about 5 wks, she swallowed something and had to have surgery to remove the obstruction. Once she survived the sore mouth problem, I took her to a vet two hours away for her spay. Fine. After several months, my other million cats and fosters started fighting and peeing anywhere but their litter boxes. I couldn't figure out what was happening to my perfect pets! I finally noticed that Jolie had become ridiculously affectionate to anything that wouldn't move away. I'd heard that if a tiny piece of the girl parts was left behind in a spay, hormones would continue to be produced mimicking heat. So a vet ran a hormone level test. Fine. The behavior got better, but it didn't go away completely and the cat herd peeing continued. Back to the vet for exploratory surgery. When I picked her up, the vet taunted me by asking me to guess what he found. I couldn't figure it out, so he whipped out a glass jar he'd been hiding behind his back. I drew a blank. A cats entire reproductive system! She'd never been spayed! Apparently, the vet that was supposed to do the spay noticed the scar from her obstruction surgery on her tummy when they shaved her and assumed she'd been spayed. I didn't check for stitches and drove two hours home, having paid for a spay that didn't happen!

[ShazzieB]

2. They CHARGED you for a stay they didn't even do?

Shame on that vet! I don't know what a spay costs nowadays (Willow was already spayed when we adopted her), but I'd be ticked off, just on principle. He should have at least called and asked you about the stitches.

[Karadeniz]

3. Yep!