Dr Bruce Williams
 
Perhaps you can help with a "problem child" I have here at the shelter.
Little Red is a 3/4# sprite approximately 1 1/2 to 2 years old.  She arrived
here July 5, 1993 looking for all the world like a jill left much too long
in heat.  I put her in with my vasectomozed  hob, who enjoyed his job very
much. Nothing happened.  Worried about just getting her out of heat (I have
3 vets who all felt she was whole and in heat), I let my breeding hob try to
take her out.  Nothing! Very concerned now, I opted for exploratory surgery
feeling she was 1) a botched early spay or, 2) a bad adrenal.  Now, Little
Red developed a wonderful, thick coat once she arrived here...no baldness
anywhere on her.
    The vet who did the surgery was shocked to find that she was, indeed, an
early spay.  No foreign tissue was found except for a tiny bit of grafted
tissue on the left adrenal; it was removed and sent out for biopsy.  Report
came back as: "within normal parameters."  STILL she wouldn't shrink.  We
did a CBC.  She came back as "spayed". sigh  Ok, so we did a urinalysis.
Not a thing.  Then she had a shot to take her out of heat.  The stem of the
vulva (in the beginning) measured 1" in length, the head about the size of a
medium grape.  By now (October) she is down to looking like a jill about 1
week into heat.
     Last week I checked her and she was the same size (last noted above).
This week she is swelling again and looks almost ready to breed size.  My
males are chaffing at the bit to mate with her.
     Suggestions?  Could the length of the uterine stump do the same thing
as a piece of ovarian tissue?  She still has a teriffic coat, is happy,
healthy and plays with the kits; like a kit. She eats like a pig and her
stools are normal.
 
Rose
 Legion Of Superferrets of PA Shelter/Rescue
 
[Posted in FML issue 0679]