Posted by Noofies on 2/8/2005, 1:15 am, in reply to "noofie on pain manage ment bnelow" The point is, this vet clinic routinely dispenses potentially dangerous pain medication as a sop to the clients, not because the animal needs it. Good marketing, bad medicine.
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I'm all in favor of pain medication when it's needed, but I can't see routinely prescribing a drug with potentially fatal side effects for spay/neuter of puppies. If the surgeon is competent - and I've run across one or two who aren't - most pups are almost back to normal the next day. The younger they are, the quicker they recover, too. Our local HS does pediatric spay/neuter; the last litter of pups I had altered there were done at 9 weeks of age, and the spay incision wasn't any bigger than the tip of my little finger - 1/2", tops. The neuter incision wasn't any bigger. If I didn't know they'd had surgery, I'd never have been able to guess it from their behavior just 4 hours post-surgery.
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