Next, the monitoring devices are disconnected and Barbie's ready to go and sleep-off her anesthesia --

Here, she's put in the pen, still pretty much out of it --

-- she still has the trachea tube in -- it is removed when she shows her first swallow reflex --

Dr. C comforts her --

... but not for long -- !!

Next is Mocha, a lab-mix who was recently spayed and who tore out her sutures --

-- she is in for a quick repair --

-- and within minutes, Barbie regains conscious and is looking around the room.

She is released 5 hours later, and gets pain meds for the next three days --

-- in two days, she'll return to the vet for suture inspection, and in ten days, she'll get the sutures removed --

As you can see, a spay is by no means "routine" surgery, and is actually a major procedure --

-- THANK YOU to Dr. C and staff for allowing us to learn from this procedure, and thank you for doing a great job -- !!