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Posted by: pitdorks at Sun Dec 14 16:43:18 2008 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by pitdorks ] About 3 years ago, we had to have one of our bearded dragons spayed due to a massive overproduction of eggs (she laid more than 250 in a week). The vet that I see happens to also be at the clinic I work at. We discussed the options, the risks and the probable outcomes. I will tell you that my vet has a decent amount of reptile experience yet he had never done a beardie spay, only iguanas. The outcome - I was lucky. We had a LOT of post-operative care to deal with and a long recovery, yet she did well. Recently our clinic did an emergency spay on an eggbound 12 year old green iguana with renal disease that was discovered on her pre-operative bloodwork. If ever there was a case that we thought wouldn't make it, it was her. For us, it was a VERY hard surgery. The vet had a hard time with her as she was so loaded with eggs that he couldn't see anything else. She also went into cardiac and respiratory arrest on the table halfway through surgery - which is a HUGE risk with any reptile going under anesthesia. We did get her back and he was able to finish the surgery. Her recovery was slow and I spent the majority of the day doing just her postop care. In reality, the clinic will need to assign a tech to the iguana for the entire day and they will do nothing but her care. [ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Hide Replies ]
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