Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Phnom Penh Animal Welfare Society (PPAWS) has warned people to stop giving their pets birth control shots designed for humans.

Is that common practice? I've never heard of such nonsense.

And here's a picture of a poor dog in Cambodia that almost died from birth control shots:



After surgically removing a 12-kilogram infected uterus from a dog in Phnom Penh, a leading animal charity has issued a warning about the dangers of giving dogs and cats birth-control injections, a cheap and widespread procedure in Cambodia they say puts countless animals’ lives at risk.

According to Nou Chamnan, a veterinarian at the Phnom Penh Animal Welfare Society (PPAWS), 14-year-old dog Srey Mao was just days from death when her owner brought her in on Monday, but now looks set to make a full recovery after the hour-long procedure.

“If the owner had waited one or two days more, the uterus would have broken inside [her],” Chamnan says. “She was already dying.”

Srey Mao’s owner, retired teacher Be Vantha, said the dog received four birth-control injections at three-month intervals before she began to show signs of infection – which he initially thought was the pregnancy he had sought to avoid. When he took her, bloated and unable to walk, to the person who had injected her, he was told to find another vet.

“He said he couldn’t treat her,” Vantha said.

Luckily for Vantha, a tuk-tuk driver in the Tuol Tompoung neighbourhood where he lives had heard of PPAWS and told him to take her there.

According to Chamnan, over the past year she has treated dozens of dogs and cats in Phnom Penh for infected uteruses, caused by injections of birth-control medicine intended for humans.

http://phnompenhpost.com/national/anima ... trol-shots

While none of the dogs she has treated have died, she says she has found the injections to be commonplace in many of the provinces she has visited, where the lack of proper veterinary care available leaves animals with much bleaker survival prospects when infection strikes.

Pet owners in the provinces who want do do the right thing ie; prevent their animals from breeding all over the place, have to use whatever methods they can find, due to the lack of proper veterinary services.

Seems a bit harsh to be lecturing the few pet owners who are trying to act responsibly to keep dog and cat populations under control, when most of them don't bother at all.

However,I would have thought that injectable birth-control products for animals would be cheaper than those used on humans ? Maybe they're just not available ?

And it is probably not a good idea to give humans pet birth control shots.

Reminds me when Kramer was taking a cough medicine that was for dogs. (American TV reference)

Sad.. but if there is any medicine can keep puppies still small?

Anchor Moy wrote:

While none of the dogs she has treated have died, she says she has found the injections to be commonplace in many of the provinces she has visited, where the lack of proper veterinary care available leaves animals with much bleaker survival prospects when infection strikes.

Pet owners in the provinces who want do do the right thing ie; prevent their animals from breeding all over the place, have to use whatever methods they can find, due to the lack of proper veterinary services.

Seems a bit harsh to be lecturing the few pet owners who are trying to act responsibly to keep dog and cat populations under control, when most of them don't bother at all.

However,I would have thought that injectable birth-control products for animals would be cheaper than those used on humans ? Maybe they're just not available ?

Still in trials:
http://www.spayfirst.org/dog-birth-cont ... pulations/

Interesting how cross species that injection is though... how long until china tries it with humans.

oh wait, looks like it is now EPA approved... someone needs to get an NGO on this, start just baiting and darting wild dogs, rats, and cats with it.

http://asktheexpert.custhelp.com/app/an ... control%3F

[EDIT: I just contacted the USDA Dr in charge of the project about this, explaining the situation in Cambodia and inquiring if exports would be possible and to get the associated costs/etc. I'll make a whole new thread on the subject if I hear anything back from him.]

prahkeitouj wrote:Sad.. but if there is any medicine can keep puppies still small?

Just don't feed it!