I need small cute doggie advice

[Thtwudbeme]

3 months ago, I met a lady who found a small jack terrier mix running down I-40. She was covered with fleas, and filthy.

Well...now her name is Scout, and she is best friends with Stinky the Wonder Cat. I fix her dinner, and she sleeps in bed with us.

Two veterinarians, both of whom I trust, found a spay scar on her. Today, her vulva is swollen, and has drops of blood on it. Not much...believe me, if Scout were really bleeding, I would be at the emergency vet, and not posting on DU. She is chowing down just fine, bouncing all over the place, and kissing Stinky in the face---much to Stinky's complete and utter cat disgust.

Could this dog be in heat?

Is it possible she had bad surgery?

I am taking her in in the morning--no question...just never heard of anything like this before-

[youthere]

1. Maybe she has a bad bladder infection?

[Thtwudbeme]

3. I wondered about that; but her urine is clear and normal looking

She is not squatting, straining, or begging to go out.

(that would have been an ER trip for the Scoutster....I have no kids...guess who gets the maternal cravings? ;) )

[Dastard Stepchild]

2. My pooch....

My LuLu had an incomplete spay procedure when she was a puppy. When she was 3 years old, she had to go in to the vet to have it repaired. I also became suspicious when I noted my ostensibly spayed dog having a poochie period.

[Thtwudbeme]

4. Was that dangerous?

Like I wrote...this is my child....so, naturally, I would do the laser surgery, painkillers...yada yada yada....I am a greedy vet's dream patient....

[Dastard Stepchild]

7. Let me think....

I noticed the period, and I brought her in the next day. The vet palpitated her abdomen, and felt that there was some swelling. Plus, LuLu yelped really loudly, so she guessed something was up. She took an xray, and initially, the vet thought she was looking at a perforated abdomen wall. However, it became clearer upon further observation that she was looking at a swollen tissue mass surrounding the ovaries.

She was scheduled for surgery that day (since the surgical vet was available). Since it was a pretty major surgery, she stayed overnight, and I picked her up the next day.

She had given us some clues that, in retrospect, should have made me think something was up. A few months before the surgery, she was increasingly unwilling to let me pick her up, since I would scoop her up near the abdomen. And she started being a little incontinent.... she would dribble urine.

She bounced back magnificently. :)

[SOteric]

5. Could be that, or it could be a bladder problem.

If she has a blockage of some sort, the resultant straining can cause mild bleeding.

She'd probably whine or strain when trying to urinate, however.

Bladder problems can be serious. Best have the vet take a peek.

[Thtwudbeme]

6. I agree....if she strained for two seconds

She would be loaded in the car on the way to the ER.

[miss_kitty]

8. She sounds great

and having just gone through heat with Stella, the foundling babe dog, it sounds exactly like heat. Maybe it wasn't a spay scar...

[Thtwudbeme]

9. I wonder if she was a puppy mill breeder

You cannot imagine how cute she is--but, I wonder if the docs were looking at a c-section scar?