I normally save the non-political posts for the weekend, but right now I need to ask my readers for some advice concerning what you might call a family emergency.(Besides, the world of politics is making me even angrier than usual today. I haven't read the Atlantic piece yet, but I ran into a creep who insisted that it somehow validates the "darkened video" smear. Kee-RIST. The crap just never dies...!)
(Enough. Must think pleasant thoughts....)
This is a story about a shaggy dog. My dog, Bella.
Back in 2001, while driving through an industrial part of town around 4 a.m., we found her wandering in a rainstorm. She was drenched and miserable -- and collar-free. She appeared to be almost full-grown, but still acted like a puppy. Of course, we instantly fell in love with the creature. That night, she commandeered the bed and graciously invited us to share it with her. We had to change the sheets twice.
Ever since, she has slept on soft comforters and dined on a variety of meats, even on days when we had only pasta. She has had a good life.
What you are about to read is the key sentence of our tale: The vet said that she was already fixed.
We presumed that the operation explained why she had nine nipples, asymmetrically placed.
As the years passed, she never showed any sign of a sexual interest in any other dog, and they never cared about her. She once shared quarters with an un-fixed male lab for quite a few months. Nothing. No sparks. She has lived in apartment buildings and guest houses surrounded by other canines. Again, no interest. She has never shown any of the symptoms of being in heat.
Until a couple of days ago.
It's unmistakable. I'm not just talking about the enlarged nipples and private pooch parts. Every male dog in the neighborhood is camping on the front doorstep, literally scratching to get in as I write these words. It's like The Omega Man. Except with dogs.
I fear that one of her suitors may have, er, succeeded in making his case. It happened (if it happened) before I came to understand the nature of Bella's condition. The successful swain was a Chihuahua named Taco, who was tiny enough to sneak under the gate. His antics have led to several disgusting jokes about taco sauce, not least because his obscenely disproportionate weapon of war resembles a bottle of La Victoria. (It is bigger than he is. The physics involved would baffle Dr. Lao.)
My virginal little girl may now be a soiled slut. The possible outcome of her trampish behavior had me worried for a while. But online research suggests that any Taco-ized offspring may look like this fellow, in which case finding homes for five or six new pups should not prove difficult.
The conundrum remains. That's why I call upon the group mind to answer this question: Can a "fixed" animal become un-fixed over time?
Could the vet have been wrong in her pronouncement? If so, then why did Bella first enter heat in the doggy equivalent of middle age? (No cracks about Cher or Joan Collins, please.) How can such things be?
14 comments:
They can't become unfixed, because their organs are gone. The vet could have been wrong--they would only know based on a surgical scar. Maybe the scar was from something else.
If she was impregnated only a few days ago, she can easily be spayed. I know you can find homes for the puppies, but as you probably know, there are millions killed each year for nothing more than lack of a home. and you as a thinking person won't want to add to that.
And good for you for taking her in and caring for her. Even now that she is a fallen dog.
No, they can't become "unfixed"...the uterus and ovaries are removed when a dog is spayed.
Sounds like the vet got it wrong.
Mountain Sage
If you got her in 2001 and have had no suitors since then, she likely was fixed. 'Fixing' doesn't normally remove any organs, they just cut the fallopian tubes so an egg cannot travel it's normal path to the uterus. But, eggs are still produced and it happens that on very rare occasions the egg drifting around can find it's way on it's own, as your pup demonstrated.
Maybe she was just waiting for "the right" fella to come along.
I once had a cat that developed strange HUGE boobs... the size and shape of regular cake-donuts. The vet said she had "hysterical pregnancy" and it would just go away. Well, it did... several weeks and six kittens later.
I had a fixed female who was a horn dog..all the time..she just could not bare fruit!
Could she have been exposed to a Rife Sex Machine... or maybe a Reich Organ Generator? Or maybe your Bella was always just a cougar in Bichon's clothing?
Perhaps in her younger days she was playing the part of a demure Democrat.
Now older, perhaps she has turned into a rapacious Republican.
My sister's female Chihuahua was supposedly fixed, but after many worry-free years, went into heat. The operation turned out to have been done improperly. If you become a puppy daddy -- congrats! I am sure they will be adorable, plus the mix is probably genetically more healthy than many pure breds.
djmm
You should take her to a vet she may have a tumor.Some times they have a falsh pregnacy also. Jus saying you might want o check.Hope all is well.
I had a similar experience. Found an uncollared stray, took her to a vet who I had known and trusted for years and he pronounced her healthy,"fixed" and around 18 months old. Two years later she became pregnant, refused to say who the father was and delivered, without fuss, four puppies of no particularly recognizable heritage.
The vet was just wrong. Wrong about her age, wrong about her being fixed, she just matured later and without any outward signs of said "maturity" - it happens! The only resultant problems are that two years later, the children are still living at home with absolutely no sign of any desire to contribute to their own upkeep - Good Luck!
ex-pat...you have me wondering whether you're talking about a dog or, y'know, some sort of BDSM thing.
Anon, the tumor suggestion has me worried.
Joseph - Forgive me, I'm foreign and live a sheltered life - mostly with cats and dogs, so I don't know what BDSM is, although I'm pretty sure it is not Blushing Debutante Syndrome Management
Joe sorry but that makes no sense... the only thing that i can see in there that would be BDSM-like would be the collar: lotsa subs wear collars and leashes --but i think it came from dogs to leather players, not the other way around.... Or are you saying that exP's anthropomorphisms remind you of a, you know, BDSM thing? I can't see the puppy's refusing to pay room/board nor the bitch's refusal to name the knocker-upper as masochism, do you? (PS: i don't mean "the bitch" in an Obama way, just in the taxonomic way)
Oh...........I see!
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