{"id":1800,"date":"2008-11-03T19:22:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2008-11-03T19:26:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:26:53","slug":"awww-zielig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/1800","title":{"rendered":"Awww… Zielig!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well today was the big day for Pixel.\u00a0 Now six months old it was time to have her sterilized.\u00a0 The poor little thing!\u00a0\u00a0 It was so heartbreaking for me to have this done to her now but I know it is the best thing for her.\u00a0\u00a0 We learned our lesson by putting it off too long with Bailey<\/a>, and weren\u2019t going to make that mistake again.<\/p>\n

It was so hard though, she is so little!!!\u00a0 It really was like sending a baby in!<\/p>\n

While she was under they checked her eye which still shows the damage but is healing well.\u00a0 They also removed two of her milk teeth that didn\u2019t seem to want to come out on their own.\u00a0 Apparently if they don\u2019t come out it can cause some problems with her adult bite so we figured we may as well have it done while she is going to be under anyway.<\/p>\n

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Before the surgery they did some bloodwork to make sure that everything was ok with her and that there would be no complications.\u00a0 That all came back fine.\u00a0 We got the call to go pick her up at about 3pm and we couldn\u2019t get in the car quick enough.<\/p>\n

The ladies at the vet clinic are crazy about her.\u00a0 They have been ever since we took her in there for her first set of shots after we got her.\u00a0 It seemed like ages before we got her in our arms for a cuddle because all the girls who worked there were crowded around her kissing and hugging her and threatening to put her in their bags and sneak off with her.\u00a0 She is always so popular.<\/p>\n

When we got her home we put her in her bed with her towel, which she seems to always have to have in there with her.\u00a0 It was in her little bed since she was a baby and now that she has her \u2018big girl bed\u2019 she still makes a point of sleeping on the towel rather than the pillow that is in there.\u00a0 Strange little creature.<\/p>\n

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The other animals were curious and it was obvious that they could tell something was up with her.\u00a0\u00a0 Bailey went over for a lick and was promptly told off, so he knows now that she is not in the mood.\u00a0 Both he and Spencer are watching over her from a safe distance.<\/p>\n

One thing I find very cool is the new alternative to the ugly plastic cone head!<\/p>\n

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Instead of having to figure out how to get her to keep the \u2018lampshade\u2019 on, we were given the option of buying this Medical Pet Shirt<\/a> for her to wear instead.\u00a0 Of course, we jumped at the opportunity and got one in her size.\u00a0 It\u2019s light weight, stretchy and she doesn\u2019t seem to mind it at all, which is great.\u00a0 It keeps her covered and stops her from being able to lick at her stitches while going without the added irritation of trying to get around and get comfortable with the ungodly plastic cone on her head.\u00a0\u00a0 We just have to undo the little straps around her back legs and roll it up when we take her out to pee.<\/p>\n

All in all it was a pretty big expense, between he bloodwork, tooth removal, surgery and the medical shirt it cost us \u20ac375 euro.\u00a0\u00a0 Definitely more expensive than having a male sterilized but it\u2019s also a much more intrusive procedure.<\/p>\n

Plus, it\u2019s always worth it to know she will be healthy and happy for it later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well today was the big day for Pixel.\u00a0 Now six months old it was time to have her sterilized.\u00a0 The poor little thing!\u00a0\u00a0 It was so heartbreaking for me to have this done to her now but I know it is the best thing for her.\u00a0\u00a0 We learned our lesson by putting it off too …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,61,93,264],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-the-zoo","tag-pets","tag-pixel","tag-sickness","tag-vet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}