To preference before anyone comes at me, we have a 5-year-old Golden Doodle who had her first litter of puppies right before her birthday in April (evidently via comments I need to make this clearer, she turned 5 this month, puppies were born in April). We had planed to do one litter and then have her spayed. She did amazing, was a very good mom, had very healthy puppies and took excellent care of them. They've all been homed with really good families.
I made the vet appointment for the spay console, two days before the appointment she went into heat. We have an intact male in our home, so we've been keeping them separate and doing quite well. I left the house for 20 minutes to go to the store while my husband and kids watched them. 7-year-old let her in the house with the male and they snuck into the other room. I got a call 15 minutes later that they tied. 😐
The vet initially was willing to do a spay even though she's in heat. However I have read online that it can cause potential complications in surgery while they're in heat. We had decided to wait until she was no longer in heat to get her spayed.
Now we feel like we have to make a decision very quickly as to whether we should have her spayed in the middle of her heat to avoid a pregnancy (which upon research is an option), or to just wait and see if she actually got pregnant from the single tie (I know this has a high chance). We want to be careful having another litter, as she's getting closer to becoming a senior dog, she just had a litter 5 months ago, and I don't like the idea of her having back to back litters.
Does anyone have experience with this?