The "vet" who did the castration was a butcher, what a disaster, the poor dog was damned near hemorrhaged to death. Our regular vet does not do them [he doesn't even have an office, he's the vet for UMFU out here, takes care of the large animals/cows mostly], so he brought another guy with him. I won't go into details, but it was brutal surgery. We called our vet last night and he came back [alone, thank God, or I think Mr. AE would have killed the other guy] and gave him something to slow the bleeding and clot the blood. I've been cooking liver for him to build his blood back up, he had a quiet night and no huge puddle of blood this morning, just a trail, seeping, not pouring out.
I think emergency has passed, for the moment anyway, but we have the cellphone #'s of the vet Annie recommended, and will have him in the car in a flash if the bleeding starts again. I'm a little nervous with everything closing down Wednesday for the long weekend, so watching very closely.
As dv8 said, we've had a rough month with the dogs. The mother of the pups had retained placentas and went septic, bleeding from nose & mouth and in urine. We had to remove pups from her, as infection would be in milk too, we lost the 3 males. So we have been hand feeding the females for about 10 days. We dewormed them on Saturday, and they didn't react well, diarrhea/vomiting, not eating, so we were worried we'd lose them.
As far as the mom, we're taking her to SD today to be seen, to see if she can be saved.
We need our own private clinic here - unfortunately we're in the middle of nowhere in the campo, so it's been a challenge.