06-28-2018, 04:51 PM
A good zoo friend of mine with a houseload of dogs regrettably has to rehome one, an intact bitch, because of fighting. I've been encouraged to foster her even as its acknowledged I'm not long-term prepared for a companion as yet (I had been getting close but have had a series of financial setbacks and a looming-on-the-horizon moving expense putting my net worth well below being able to set aside an emergency care fund I promised myself I would meet before accepting responsibility for a canine companion). I've decided to entertain this idea, short term fostering until a forever home could be found for her, but ... I would really want to get her a "partial spay," a hystorectomy which remove the uterus (simultaneously eliminating risks for pregnancy and pyometra) but leaves the ovaries (which are what generate the natural hormones in a bitch -- so she wouldn't lose her vibrancy, unlike a full spay).
Fostering an intact bitch I don't intend to keep, would it be wrong for me to impose a life-altering surgery on the bitch that may not align with the wishes of a future forever home for her?
