One Day to Spay

Petite Pooch Plus has added a new staff member to our “family”. We weren’t looking for any applicants but she was presented to us by one of our hotel staff members. When this young lady interviewed with us, we observed that she was sweet, extremely shy and nervous, thin, not very social or experienced, and not the best-looking gal in town but our management staff wanted to give her a chance. The Petite Pooch Plus manager, Lorena Evans, volunteered to work with her and felt that after some training, she would grow into being a valued member of our team. There was one thing we didn’t know about during our interview with her…she wasn’t spayed. Oh, I guess I forgot to mention…our applicant is a dog.

Her name is “Baby” and she’s a 2 year old female medium-sized Rottweiller mixed breed doggie. She belonged to Melanie Foster’s sister. Melanie works at Petite Pooch Chateau. Her sister was only 32 years old and she died at home about 4 weeks ago after falling into a diabetic coma. “Baby” was with her at the time. Melanie tried to keep “Baby” but for a variety of reasons, she wasn’t able to. Soooo…she introduced “Baby” to me.

I’m a big softy when it comes to these types of situations, especially when it concerns any staff member of Petite Pooch. I could see that Melanie was distraught. She felt guilty about not being able to keep her sister’s pooch and she didn’t know what to do. Realizing that I have 7 pooches of my own and 8 dogs was appealing but not a practical option at my home, I decided to take “Baby” on as a “shop dog”. But first I had to get her assessed by a vet at the Animal Clinic of Farmers Branch.

I know that Melanie’s sister took good care of “Baby” because the veterinarian told me that she was heartworm negative and she was free of any intestinal parasites. After the vet reviewed the vaccination record Melanie gave me, there was no need to update her vaccines…the only thing that needed to be done was to spay “Baby”

I never met Melanie’s sister and she left this world too early in life. I won’t ever have an opportunity to have a conversation with her about the spay vs. not-to-spay debate. I only know that for some reason, she chose not to spay “Baby”. Maybe it was a money issue, maybe it was a philosophy issue, or maybe it was just an issue of not having enough time in the day to get it done. I would encourage every pet parent to get their pet spayed or neutered for all the reasons we already know about…afterall, it only takes “one day to spay”.

Love to all,

Norma