Chemical Termination / Abortion Aftercare - bexVN or TheVet
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Hi
Posting for my cousin who is a live in Nanny. The families dog escaped (whilst in the care of the family not my cousin) and has had an encounter with someone else's male dog. She was found to be about 5 weeks in to the pregnancy and the owners have had a chemical termination of the pregnancy.
My cousin looks after the dog during the week and wants to do the best for her so is asking this -
Injections given Friday and Saturday expulsion on Sunday
Does she need re scanning and maybe a small course of antibiotics?
Is she likely to follow on with a phantom pregnancy and milk?
Is there anything homeopathic over the counter I can give her?
Should I treat her as if nothing's happened and get back to regular exercise?
Her owners will not think to ask these questions. They think she is fine, but she is not right, very quiet digging up bedding ( not usual for her) and whining not usual either, eating well and only a slight clear discharge coming out now.
Thank you.
Posting for my cousin who is a live in Nanny. The families dog escaped (whilst in the care of the family not my cousin) and has had an encounter with someone else's male dog. She was found to be about 5 weeks in to the pregnancy and the owners have had a chemical termination of the pregnancy.
My cousin looks after the dog during the week and wants to do the best for her so is asking this -
Injections given Friday and Saturday expulsion on Sunday
Does she need re scanning and maybe a small course of antibiotics?
Is she likely to follow on with a phantom pregnancy and milk?
Is there anything homeopathic over the counter I can give her?
Should I treat her as if nothing's happened and get back to regular exercise?
Her owners will not think to ask these questions. They think she is fine, but she is not right, very quiet digging up bedding ( not usual for her) and whining not usual either, eating well and only a slight clear discharge coming out now.
Thank you.
Wow lots of issues here, I'll try and answer as many as I can but no doubt it won't be quite straightforward. The use of oestrogens to abort a canine pregnancy has been around for many years, but I and my practice would not use them to terminate a 5 week pregnancy. Right to life and all that! I think it would be wrong but that is a value judgement, and not black and white. So, if the abortion has been started, then it usually would be relatively straightforward for the b
h to expel the foetuses and afterbirths, but I would recommend simple antibiotic cover (amoxycillin?) any change to normal daily routine would have to be slightly reactive to the bh and how well she was. She may also be disturbed by having given birth to stillborn offspring which is difficult to predict as to how it will affect her. I would def recommend a rescan to check if any material has been retained. Homeopathic?? dunno, google an old friend of mine called Geoff Johnson he may have a useful contribution from the homeopathic vet side. Exercise will be dtermined by how quickly the bh expels the abortion and gets over the physical and mental effects. Then for goodness sake get the bh spayed to avoid all this unnecessary angst.
h to expel the foetuses and afterbirths, but I would recommend simple antibiotic cover (amoxycillin?) any change to normal daily routine would have to be slightly reactive to the bh and how well she was. She may also be disturbed by having given birth to stillborn offspring which is difficult to predict as to how it will affect her. I would def recommend a rescan to check if any material has been retained. Homeopathic?? dunno, google an old friend of mine called Geoff Johnson he may have a useful contribution from the homeopathic vet side. Exercise will be dtermined by how quickly the bh expels the abortion and gets over the physical and mental effects. Then for goodness sake get the bh spayed to avoid all this unnecessary angst.I can't go into the technical stuff tbh but I don't think I have ever seen the injections used so late in the pregnancy. We certainly wouldn't do it. We have spayed but usually no later than 3 weeks into the pregnancy. It would still be possible to spay her now and euthanase the pups but ethically many vets/ nurses would struggle with that (I know I would unless the Mum was in danger).
Eta missed that she'd already had the injections so the above is a bit irrelevant sorry. I can't add anymore than what Thevet has already said.
Eta missed that she'd already had the injections so the above is a bit irrelevant sorry. I can't add anymore than what Thevet has already said.
Edited by bexVN on Thursday 16th October 20:53
Thank you so much, I will pass this on to my cousin.
She is just as distraught as the dog is. The owners of the dog see the dog as a dog, nothing more and certainly not as a member of the family or loved (thank goodness my cousin lives there during the week to give this dog the care and attention she needs).
My cousin breeds and shows Hungarian Visla, their dogs are part of the family and they'd do anything for them, without question.
Again, many many thanks. Lets hope this poor dog get's over what has happened to her.
She is just as distraught as the dog is. The owners of the dog see the dog as a dog, nothing more and certainly not as a member of the family or loved (thank goodness my cousin lives there during the week to give this dog the care and attention she needs).
My cousin breeds and shows Hungarian Visla, their dogs are part of the family and they'd do anything for them, without question.
Again, many many thanks. Lets hope this poor dog get's over what has happened to her.
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