Pyometra - Page 1

Just curious. If a dog has more than 2 heat cyscles a year woudl she be a stronger candidate to develop Pyometra??  My vet said that too many heat cycles could be a sign.

Any female is in risk of pyometra's. If a bitch goes throught multiple heats without being bred she is at a high risk.
Most dogs have 2 heat cycles a year.. every 6 months. So if your dog has 2 heats a year she wouldnt be at any more risk than every other bitch.

I have a female aged 6 years who has had regular seasons of every 4 months since she had her first aged 16 months. She has had 2 litters and fingers crossed that she is curently pregnant with her 3rd and final litter, she will then be desexed.

My 8 year old dog always had regular 6 monthly seasons and she developed Pyometra last month and luckily she pulled through the operation.

Any intact female is at risk from Pyometra, some as young as 12 months old get it.

most of my bitches have had regular 6 monthly cycles and have had litters.No pyometra.A bitch i sold at 12 months developed a pyometra aged about 2/3yrs old.i have an old girl at home(now aged nearly 11)She has only had 1 litter,has had regular 6 monthly cycles and she had an open pyometra in 2010,which mainly drained itself but as there was still some infection in the womb the vet spayed her just to make sure.It more normal in older intact bitches who havent had any litters but i know several gsd breeders here in the uk who have had younger bitches get it and who have gone down the medication path,but i think this isnt always successful.IMO.i would think that a bitch who has 4 monthly cycles should be watched very carefully after her seasons for the symptoms of pyo.CSpelman

I would recommend that anybody with an intact bitch who they don't intend to breed from, if possible, to have it spayed.

Unfortunately my dog was unable to be spayed, as she had a really bad adverse reaction to the anaesthetic when she was 3 years old, she actually had gone in to be spayed got into difficulties breathing and it took ages for my vet and the vet nurses to revive her. Obviously the spaying was aborted.

I got paranoid about her having Pyometra at some time, knew all the symptoms to look for, even closed Pyo and knew that if she did get it, a plan was in place for treating it.... she would be rushed to Liverpool Small Animal Teaching Hospital to have the op done - which was exactly what happened. The facilities there are second to none, so any anaesthetic probs would be minimal hopefully as the right up-to-date equipment would be there.

She is a month post-op now and in brilliant health and thank God, she won't have to face anymore pseudo pregnancies, hormonal moods or bleeding from a season. Only thing to show she had a life-saving op is that all of her belly hair was clipped....

She still is a tart though, I have a 6½ month old Border Collie pup whose testosterone level is increasing daily and she welcomes his attentions. Just 6 weeks to go and he will have reached the minimum age I would have a male castrated. Would like to have waited longer, preferably when he is 12 to 15 months old but in this case needs must.