Emasculated

My dog, Faith, is getting neutered today.

My brother and I took our two dogs to the vet yesterday for their much overdue annual checkup. Faith is a 9 year old, Shetland Sheepdog and Hope is a 3-4 year old, Lab-Shepherd mix. Hope had to be muzzled because he absolutely hates shots and anything that is vet related. He was so mad! Faith's just old and usually nervous. They both got violated during the fecal exam which showed that Hope has whipworm so they're both going to be on treatment for that for 5 days then monthly. Otherwise, they're fine. Faith's enlarged testical is going to be removed today as well as his other "normal" one. My poor baby's getting emasculated! But yeah, it should have been done years ago. Though all they got was just a physical exam, rabies and DHLP boosters, heartworm exam, and fecal exam plus the dewormer meds and Faith's bloodwork for the surgery the cost was over $300! Whew! Expensive! Add another $100+ for Faith's surgery and wow... almost $500. I mean, I knew it would be expensive, but still... heh.

Now I've been in contact with a couple Sheltie breeders in my area and hopefully one of them will be willing to let me adopt one of their puppies. I don't know for sure if I'm getting on for right now (to bring back when I go to Grenada this time) or next time. But it's expensive bringing pets down. Around $700 for the puppy, another maybe $50 for the vet exam, $100 for the airline, and dunno how much it'll cost to actually bring in to Grenada. But the procedure for bringing dogs into Grenada is actually pretty easy and straightforward. Apparently just get the dog vaccinated and fill out a form and you're done.

More to come... I'll try to add pics later.