UPDATE
Puff & I just got back from getting her pre-op bloodwork and evaluation done in preparation for her dental trip Thursday.
In the evaluation, our vet also found a corn on the side of a paw pad on her right front foot. She advised just watching it, that good surgical outcomes are iffy.
She found 2 cracked teeth, the worst is a premolar.
They'll X-ray any questionable teeth and go from there.
IF they can use glue, it'll be $40 @ tooth treated. Extractions are more expensive. If they extract, she'll need to stay over night so they can give pain meds and check the recuperation. During the anesthesia, she'll be well-monitored by an array of machines, IVs, anesthesiologists, etc.
Our vet pleaded with me to use our Interceptor more often than @ 45 days 8 months of the year. She said there's a big increase in the incidence of heartworm in Kansas so I guess we'll comply.
Since I found last fall that Puff's weight had increased to 65 lbs., I've been gradually reducing the amount of food she gets each meal.
Today on the Teaching Hospital scale Puff weighed 62.4 lbs.
WHOOPEE!!!
On our way to the appointment, Puff realized where we were going and began getting excited, crooning with anticipation, more so & louder the closer we got. She almost yanked me off my feet on our way through their front door. Every vet student or vet she saw pass through the waiting room she wanted to kiss and many came over to oblige her.
After the bloodwork and evaluation, our vet and the 4th year student brought her back to me in the examining room and the vet tried to show me the teeth in question (one is a premolar). Puff is enormously skittish about some examinations and opening her mouth to examine her teeth is one. She tried burrowing under my chair after we accomplished a couple hurried looks.
I'll drop her off Thursday morning about 6:45 and they'll call me that afternoon to let me know whether to come come back that day or next.
