Any surgery, even a routine one like a spaying, can be traumatizing for both the dog and the dog parent.<\/p>\n
Even though there are numerous benefits of spaying or neutering a dog, and most vets recommend it, it is still hard for pet parents to put their usually young pups through this.<\/p>\n
Influencer Abby Baffoe<\/a> recently went through this with her not-even-1-year-old Longhaired Dachshund named Lady.<\/p>\n In a new video, she shares that she is going to pick up Lady soon, who has been at the vet for 10 hours getting her surgery.<\/p>\n Wearing her Dachshund sweater, a clearly anxious Baffoe said to the camera, “Not trying to be dramatic, but I legit slept three hours last night. I did not know this was gonna be this long today, so this has been the longest day of my life and possibly the worst.”<\/p>\n As Baffoe walked to the vet, she knew to expect that Lady might be pretty out of it from the drugs they administered to her.<\/p>\n At the vet, she was brought out wearing one of the surgical onesies to protect her, and well, she definitely looked like she was on some good pain medication.<\/p>\n In the elevator back in their apartment, Lady is looking pretty glazed over in a sling bag. “She literally does not know what planet she’s on right now,” said Baffoe.<\/p>\n After admiring her cute surgical onesie, which is actually pretty becoming, considering what it’s for, she puts Lady on the couch for a nice, long nap under the blankets<\/a>.<\/p>\n “She’s getting all the love, all the snuggles, and all the treats this week,” said Baffoe at the end of the video.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc36<\/a>SIGN UP to get \u201cpawsitivity\u201d delivered right to your inbox with inspiring & entertaining stories about our furry & feathered friends<\/a>\ud83d\udc3e\ud83d\udc3e<\/a><\/p>\n What Are the Health Benefits of Spaying a Dog?<\/p>\n There is so much literature you can read on the health benefits of spaying and neutering a dog, and you should discuss it at length with your vet.<\/p>\n However, it should be noted that with female dogs like Lady, a study<\/a> of 460,000 cats and 2.2 million dogs found that spayed cats live 39% longer and spayed dogs live 23% longer than their unspayed counterparts.<\/p>\n Both spayed dogs and cats are less likely to develop certain cancers, as well as diseases and infections like pyometra, according to WebMD<\/a>.<\/p>\n For male dogs who are neutered, they won’t develop testicular cancer, which is common in older dogs<\/a> who haven’t had the procedure.<\/p>\n Neutered dogs also have a lower risk of developing\u00a0enlarged prostate\u00a0glands, and neutering increases their life expectancy by 18%.<\/p>\n Related: Influencer Halley Kate Serves as Referee With 3 Dachshunds Every Morning at Breakfast<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally published by Parade Pets<\/a> on Dec 3, 2025, where it first appeared in the Pet News<\/a> section. Add Parade Pets as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Any surgery, even a routine one like a spaying, can be traumatizing for both the dog and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[167049,97,167050],"class_list":{"0":"post-328764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-abby-baffoe","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-longhaired-dachshund"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}