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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I understand how you feel.

I'm a crazy cat lady, and I felt so guilty after having my girl spayed.  She WAS "scared out of her mind", and when I went to pick her up, she had peed herself and actually looked dead.  I am assuming the process is similar for dogs, so I wanted to let you know what advice from the vet I wish I had IGNORED (because I still feel guilty for doing this).  The vet told me that my cat would want to be alone in a quiet place to recover, and that she should be on the floor so that she wouldn't hurt her stitches jumping onto or off something, so I took her home and put her on a blanket on the floor in the spare room.  I quickly sponged the pee off her fur and left her there.  When I went back to the room to check on her about two hours later, she had dragged herself off the blanket and collapsed in the hall.  I took her BACK to the spare room, and put her back on the blanket, and--this is horrible--she dragged herself off again and I found her collapsed in front of the now-closed door.  I finally put her in our bed and lay down beside her, petting her and telling her I loved her, and that was what she wanted.  She didn't WANT to be alone; she wanted to be in the bed where she slept with her people, and be reassured, and I know that because she didn't try to move again.  So I traumatized her by taking her home, in pain and drugged up, and putting her by herself.

Since I'm a crazy cat lady, I stayed in bed with her until the evening when she woke up, and then I gently carried her to her litter box, and then I took her back to bed and stayed with her the rest of the night.  My son made her some boiled chicken and we fed it to her in bed.  My husband had to sleep on the sofa because I didn't want to risk jarring my girl, who was sleeping on his side.

I know she had to be spayed, but the vet's advice to put her in a room alone to recover was terrible, and I will never forgive myself for doing that to her, or forget finding her collapsed in the hall because she had been trying to get to me.  So my advice is to plan an appointment for your dog that will enable you to pick her up at a time when you can spend some hours with her, and when you will not be going out or busy in the evening.  [/quote]

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