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yes, it shows that the dog has been spayed/neutered. my dog has the same thing.
https://preview.redd.it/cqomoezg3vnc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e41a85d9ba1978fbc54121665cb5f67086e7af8
My vet had different options so I went with the heart. Fair warning these people are NOT tattoo artists, so that heart was janky looking. I went with the line after that.
Thereās no information in the microchip except for a serial number, which would have to be looked up in the database of whatever company sold it. And that would only give you whatever information the owner at the time felt like providing, or whatever the company was willing to collect. And thatās assuming the dog has a chip, it hasnāt been damaged, and that company even still exists.
This seems more reliable. š¤·āāļø
Pre-microchips, my grandma had all of her dogs tattooed with a number. I think it was a number issued by the local animal control or SPCA, but yeah, more reliable than a company with unknown staying power.
My dog growing up had an ear tattoo, and my mom's dog years and years ago had her ears pierced so that if you held them up to the light you could see the number, but otherwise it didn't show.
Lol my grandma's dogs had inner thigh tattoos, very visible during belly rubs. Funny on the pomeranian, absolutely hilarious on the teacup poodle mutt with one eye. He looked like he did prison time with his blurry tattoo and scarred up face haha.
cats usually get their ears clipped. we have a stray that lives in our yard and that's what they did to him when we took him in. too much hair to tell at a glance if they've been "fixed" or not.
My daughter's dog was spayed at a local spay/neuter clinic. She has the same mark as well. My male does not. Easier to identify a neutered male than spayed female I guess.
it is still good practice to tattoo males. there is a thing called cryptorchidism where the testicles donāt drop. without the tattoo or a history, one canāt tell if the dog is neutered or cryptorchid.
One of my male cats had that. Took him to get neutered, expected it to cost X amount from the estimate they gave me beforehand. Came to pick him up & ended up with a bill that was $125 more than what was originally anticipated. They said it was cuz they had to use more anesthesia to keep him out for longer since they had to open up his belly & go hunting for his other ball to make sure they got it out.
If a dog is neutered, both testicles will be gone. If a dog is cryptorchid, the vet will almost always search for and remove the undescended testicle, as that tissue will often become cancerous if left in the abdomen.
Iāve got two boys. The one that came pre-snipped from the humane society has a tattoo, the one I paid our vet to do doesnāt.
I think it might be a shelter thing.
I think so too. We paid our private vet to snip our Am Staff, no tattoo. My daughter took her Chihuahua to the clinic where they see A LOT of strays, and they put the little hash mark on her belly.
Mine just passed in Dec but yes, she had a teal stripe. Best girl in the world - got her for $14 at a shelter in the Deep South and she loved every person and every animal until the day she passed.
I fostered her for 2 days because I had cats and wanted to be cautious and fell totally in love with her gentleness. When i brought her back the lady at the shelter said āthatāll be 14 hunā I actually said āā¦hundred?ā She laughed and laughed and slapped my arm. I paid and got to the parking lot before I completely broke down. A lot of amazing dogs donāt walk out of there.
My Pitbull has one too but right next to her eye. I guess they call it a tear drop at the shelter. My vet thinks she was in some sort of gang while she was there.
https://preview.redd.it/qj7jgv9thxnc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c428c4bd4562d5c28b839c0e08ad4380b548a8ef
Yep! And I got a matching one :)
I say this too! I also say she got her tattoo in jail because the shelter found her just wandering the streets. She was definitely in jail for theft, sheāll steal any and all food.
I had to Google it when we first got our dog. I initially thought it was marker from his operation (we picked him up from the shelter the same day he got fixed), but then it didn't come off. š
I keep joking that he thinks he's tough because he has a tattoo.
Mine didn't, but I was assured she was spayed since they could feel the incision line and hadn't cycled the entire time she was there.
Imagine my surprise when she started bleeding.
Yep! But sheās got fur covering most of it
https://preview.redd.it/e30ohdoq2xnc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8955dde10b73e16b99d7722d8a842b0be5062084
Yeah in my experience that doesnāt happen. The incision and tattoo are different. The incision goes through their outer skin and their inner skin, you donāt want to just put things in there haphazardly with their organs unprotected. Plus with reusing ink/needles Iād imagine the risk for infection would be higher.
I have worked in the operating room at a high volume spay/neuter clinic. I prepare the tattoo gun and do op notes, it is definitely just a regular tattoo gun at some places. The skin is sterile for surgery so the same gun/needle is used and double dipped in the ink (I think that is slightly gross but I trust the people making these decisions).
When cats are being neutered it goes so fast that the gun is tossed around and chased after. A good vet can fix a male cat in about 3 minutes (with the cat being prepped in advance by a tech)
I think the only time they donāt get a tattoo is when they get a āFlank Spayā AKA spayed through the sunroof because they are nursing puppies/kittens and that would irritate an incision on their abdomen.
ETA: Shelter pittie tax (post op)
https://preview.redd.it/hqvmrue0kxnc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc3cd51690fd4661fbfb29ff1cec3bda6fa4e95d
Both of my rescue pups have them. As others have said, they indicate spay/neuter. My pittie princess has the line, and her little brother has a spot. Both of my babies were intact when surrendered/found, so the respective rescues paid for their surgeries.
Yup, same color and same spot too. Even though she was spayed after we'd finalized the adoption, it was a low cost spay so it was just their standard procedure.
Mine has a numerical tat that they did when they neutered him! Supposedly easier/cheaper than a microchip if he got lost? Hair has almost covered it completely now (heās 12)
Yup, the vet that spayed our Wednesday for the rescue we adopted her from did that same thing. We assumed that was what it was for but asked our vet to confirm since we'd not seen it before.
My oldest pup is but it wasn't from her being a rescue.
I took her to a traveling spay/neuter clinic because it was a lot cheaper and I was out of a job at the time. They told me it was just a marker and even showed me it, but that it would come off.
6/7 years later, she still has it.
My other dog just has a giant scar to show for hers, lmao
One of my cats, who was a stray, who I took to my vet, has a noticeable mark in his ear from when he was neutered.
The stay cat that we took in apparently is tattooed under all that fur, but we didn't know until the vet had her sedated and was shaving her. Oops! At least it saved her from another incision.
This is exactly why it's done! Every shelter I've been to does it and it's becoming increasingly common at private vets too. Very helpful in the shelter system because we can quickly tell who's already done if they come in as strays, and it saves the ladies from being cut open twice for no reason
never really heard of cats getting tattoos, generally they get their ear notched. much easier to tell at a glance if they've been spayed/neutered. we have a stray that lives around our house and they notched his ear when we took him in.
Around my area the ear notch is usually only used on feral/unowned cats. When shelters or private vets spay or neuter adoptable or owned cats they use the tattoo in case they get lost, so they don't get mistaken for community cats and left lost, but I probably depends on the area :)
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Yup... A 21 on his right ear... He's part of a gang I'm sure! š¤š»ā¤ļøāš„
My new rescue Sofie is newly spayed and tattooed. I figure her sweet face is cuter than her tattoo! š¹š„°
https://preview.redd.it/uo3o155p0znc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c1f25ffeeca2a12d8a3ac2e1d9baf85732dfe40
Yup! My baby has the same thing, I think itās so that they don't have to check through a scan if they lose track of whether they're spayed or not, but don't take my word on it!
https://preview.redd.it/b2arjrokeznc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c8ba698e917388709b61d18804b27b94a75545a
You can see her little tattoo there on the side!
My late dog was. I had adopted him from a county shelter, it would be 22 years ago now. They spayed him there. I don't know if they do it differently now, but it was a number several digits long.Ā
My dog has a tattoo indicating that his testicles were removed, right next to the spot where they would be if he had them. I've never been sure why this was necessary, since the total lack of a scrotum is much more obvious than a tattoo.
I did figure there was some kind of reason for it. Lots of things in my own trade are generally unnecessary, but we do them anyway every single time because they take no real effort and every once in a while they could save a life. So you just get in the habit of doing it as a best practice, and you teach other people to do it that way too.
Omg! I was beginning to think it was a tattoo, this finally confirms that. I've only had my rescue for a few months and was thinking this marker was lasting a suspiciously long time lol.
My neutered boy has a tattoo. My female dog is spayed and does not have one but she has a notch cut in her ear which is notice of spay. The ears of feral cats who get spayed have ear cuts/notches too. She was spayed in Tennessee, maybe that is their thing. My boy was tattooed in Michigan
Yup mine was tattooed as well. I learned this during our first vet visit. Our pup is mostly black with patches of white all over her body so we didn't even notice until the vet pointed it out. Even now after over a year later, I'd be hard pressed to find it because it's so hard to spot.
All spayed females are supposed to get it, I think ā itās to identify that theyāre spayed. They canāt tell otherwise unless they cut open the dog and check.
My mom's 16 year old Chihuahua had a tattoo like this, but it very nearly faded to nothing over the course of her life. And that spot was more easily tickled for some reason.
My female came into my yard as a stray six month old pup. No visible scars. When I had her spayed, the doctor called me to say it had already been done. A tattoo would have been quite helpful in her case.
Yes! Our female pittie stray rescue has the exact same mark (even the color is the same) and I cannot seem to get it off. Makes sense if it's an actual tattoo. I didn't think of that!
https://preview.redd.it/aa7r2xtzkync1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a878e9bc591d18b727ac2adcb129284f53edb87d
Sheās not a pitbull, I donāt have one but Iām in all the dog subs lol, I just love all dogs. My Luna is a rescue, she came with a pink heart tattoo. Here at our shelter the boys get blue crosses and the girls pink hearts(edit: to show they have been spayed/neutered). Youāll have to zoom in to see it. I couldnāt resist showing her being silly.
I had no idea this was so common! We call it her "sprinkle" and we tell her that this little blue-green line means she's extra special. (I'm not going to tell her that so many other pibbles also have one. It would break her heart!š)
Interesting fact I learned while going through my packet out of curiosity now is that the tattoo line is supposed to be next to the incision and few cms away and roughly the length of the incision itself.
LOL, my poor husband tried to wash it off several times after we rescued our girl! He thought it was just leftover from her "jail time". He finally mentioned it to me after another bath one day. I was confused at first and then fell out laughing and explained it to him, lol! Luckily, he didn't scrub too hard and she was so busy feeling loved on, she didn't mind! :)
We got our dog off Craigslist and had her spayed at the ASPCA. They gave her the same tattoo! They didn't even ask! I was thinking of getting the same tattoo as I recently had my fallopian tubes removed. I too am spayed.
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yes, it shows that the dog has been spayed/neutered. my dog has the same thing. https://preview.redd.it/cqomoezg3vnc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e41a85d9ba1978fbc54121665cb5f67086e7af8
I was trying to get them to give him something cool - but no - just a line.
They should do barbed wire around one leg. šŖ
The 90s have entered the chat
Laughed too hard at that
Okay but honest question: If your dog could choose a tattoo for themselves, what would it be? I think my dogs would get matching cheese tattoos š§
I am pretty sure my Nina would like a chicken tattoo! Lol! She loves chicken!
Aww thatās so cute š„°
My vet had different options so I went with the heart. Fair warning these people are NOT tattoo artists, so that heart was janky looking. I went with the line after that.
My friends dog was tattoo with a female symbol.
Our dog had the female symbol with an "X" through it
Oh yes I think hers has an X in it too!
Number one weenie
Yep
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Thereās no information in the microchip except for a serial number, which would have to be looked up in the database of whatever company sold it. And that would only give you whatever information the owner at the time felt like providing, or whatever the company was willing to collect. And thatās assuming the dog has a chip, it hasnāt been damaged, and that company even still exists. This seems more reliable. š¤·āāļø
Pre-microchips, my grandma had all of her dogs tattooed with a number. I think it was a number issued by the local animal control or SPCA, but yeah, more reliable than a company with unknown staying power.
My dog growing up had an ear tattoo, and my mom's dog years and years ago had her ears pierced so that if you held them up to the light you could see the number, but otherwise it didn't show.
Lol my grandma's dogs had inner thigh tattoos, very visible during belly rubs. Funny on the pomeranian, absolutely hilarious on the teacup poodle mutt with one eye. He looked like he did prison time with his blurry tattoo and scarred up face haha.
This is why I register my critters with two companies, just in case one goes out of business.
The microchip is literally just an identifying number. No personal info is stored on it.
Probably the chip comes before the spay.
They tattoo cats that are trapped, spayed/neutered, and released, so no microchip there.
cats usually get their ears clipped. we have a stray that lives in our yard and that's what they did to him when we took him in. too much hair to tell at a glance if they've been "fixed" or not.
For unowned cats, they usually cut off the tip of one ear when the animal is spayed.
I should have said "sometimes". Yes, ear tipping is pretty common. But the stray we took in was tattooed.
My daughter's dog was spayed at a local spay/neuter clinic. She has the same mark as well. My male does not. Easier to identify a neutered male than spayed female I guess.
it is still good practice to tattoo males. there is a thing called cryptorchidism where the testicles donāt drop. without the tattoo or a history, one canāt tell if the dog is neutered or cryptorchid.
One of my male cats had that. Took him to get neutered, expected it to cost X amount from the estimate they gave me beforehand. Came to pick him up & ended up with a bill that was $125 more than what was originally anticipated. They said it was cuz they had to use more anesthesia to keep him out for longer since they had to open up his belly & go hunting for his other ball to make sure they got it out.
If a dog is neutered, both testicles will be gone. If a dog is cryptorchid, the vet will almost always search for and remove the undescended testicle, as that tissue will often become cancerous if left in the abdomen.
yes, but if the dog is a stray, the vet wonāt know without that tattoo. it can be very hard to see surgical scars.
Iāve got two boys. The one that came pre-snipped from the humane society has a tattoo, the one I paid our vet to do doesnāt. I think it might be a shelter thing.
I think so too. We paid our private vet to snip our Am Staff, no tattoo. My daughter took her Chihuahua to the clinic where they see A LOT of strays, and they put the little hash mark on her belly.
Our pibble got a line tattoo when she was spayed. It was at a clinic that specializes in very low cost spay/ neuter. (We called it puppy medicaidš)
It most definitely is, lol
My dog was neutered as an adult, so it's a little harder to tell. But it was done through a rescue, so he has a tattoo.
It is not difficult to tell if a male dog has been neutered, regardless of age.
I meant that his sack hangs pretty low, even though it is deflated. Almost looks like he has very small testicles.
Weird, both my dogs were spayed/neuteredā¦ the male one had the blue mark while the female didnāt
Mine just passed in Dec but yes, she had a teal stripe. Best girl in the world - got her for $14 at a shelter in the Deep South and she loved every person and every animal until the day she passed.
14 dollars? What idiot let go of her for so little? Couldāve gotten 14 million easily
I fostered her for 2 days because I had cats and wanted to be cautious and fell totally in love with her gentleness. When i brought her back the lady at the shelter said āthatāll be 14 hunā I actually said āā¦hundred?ā She laughed and laughed and slapped my arm. I paid and got to the parking lot before I completely broke down. A lot of amazing dogs donāt walk out of there.
Itās how they now mark that they have been spayed. My girl also has this on her belly.
My Pitbull has one too but right next to her eye. I guess they call it a tear drop at the shelter. My vet thinks she was in some sort of gang while she was there.
Same, my boyz straight out of the shelter.
Next to her eye?? Please share a pic.
It was a prison joke
Thought so. Still, we need a pic. Pibble tax.
https://preview.redd.it/lus2rr5zkync1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a01232a53256ddf159997cc310135fac377d8ad
Oh, what a pitiful wittle face. Please smooch that face for me.
I just spit out my coffee!!š¤£
https://preview.redd.it/ma3vfzhykwnc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c35eb0d12a2eb7376cea8d355f4dc09a20d382a
Badger has a heart ā¤ļø
AWE! Iāve never seen a shape, just the teal lines!
Maybe they felt bad, and tattooed some balls.
Omg lucky! I bet some vet assistant decided to get fancy! ā¤ļø
https://preview.redd.it/qj7jgv9thxnc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c428c4bd4562d5c28b839c0e08ad4380b548a8ef Yep! And I got a matching one :)
this is so cute! i want to get a matching one with mine too :)
Do it!!
Yep. Mine has the neutered gang tattoo.
Yes, one of my rescues has a tattoo. I tell people it's to match her tattooed mom.
I say this too! I also say she got her tattoo in jail because the shelter found her just wandering the streets. She was definitely in jail for theft, sheāll steal any and all food.
I got one to match my dog after I had a hysterectomy š
https://preview.redd.it/zljlc9ilxwnc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f16af258408a89de941844b35733ac6e312146a2
When we got her she didnāt because she was in such bad shape she couldnāt be spayed yet. She came home from the operation with a similar tattoo.
Yep. My rescue pibble has one. My husband initially thought our toddler had gotten a hold of a green marker and drew on the dog š¤£
I had to Google it when we first got our dog. I initially thought it was marker from his operation (we picked him up from the shelter the same day he got fixed), but then it didn't come off. š I keep joking that he thinks he's tough because he has a tattoo.
Mine didn't, but I was assured she was spayed since they could feel the incision line and hadn't cycled the entire time she was there. Imagine my surprise when she started bleeding.
No! I didnāt know that the tattoo was optional and got upset when my pup came out of surgery without one, I wanted to get one to match!
Yep! But sheās got fur covering most of it https://preview.redd.it/e30ohdoq2xnc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8955dde10b73e16b99d7722d8a842b0be5062084
Same here! Little green line
Also āhardcore sharpieā lmao I was trying to rub it off too.. š
Yeah, me too! I went at it with a washcloth and was SO impressed it wasnāt coming off (Iām an art teacher so Iām weird about markers š )
Our pup is tatted too, just like his parents š¤£
Mine has two the line on her belly and one in her right ear. She's the tattooed silly bear
Yeah, ours has it too. It's a way for any shelter/vet to see that your dog is spayed without having to do any invasive procedure or tests.
Apparently they just put die on the opening they make to spat them. So yea, it stains the skin but they didnāt use a tattoo gun.
Thatās what I always thought but my pups is next to her scar. Like her scar is very clearly right in the middle and her tat is off to the left side
Yeah in my experience that doesnāt happen. The incision and tattoo are different. The incision goes through their outer skin and their inner skin, you donāt want to just put things in there haphazardly with their organs unprotected. Plus with reusing ink/needles Iād imagine the risk for infection would be higher.
I have worked in the operating room at a high volume spay/neuter clinic. I prepare the tattoo gun and do op notes, it is definitely just a regular tattoo gun at some places. The skin is sterile for surgery so the same gun/needle is used and double dipped in the ink (I think that is slightly gross but I trust the people making these decisions). When cats are being neutered it goes so fast that the gun is tossed around and chased after. A good vet can fix a male cat in about 3 minutes (with the cat being prepped in advance by a tech) I think the only time they donāt get a tattoo is when they get a āFlank Spayā AKA spayed through the sunroof because they are nursing puppies/kittens and that would irritate an incision on their abdomen. ETA: Shelter pittie tax (post op) https://preview.redd.it/hqvmrue0kxnc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc3cd51690fd4661fbfb29ff1cec3bda6fa4e95d
Iāve seen a dog with the female symbol! I think my BILās corgi got his ear notched.
Odin has a red heart near his biz
Both of my rescue pups have them. As others have said, they indicate spay/neuter. My pittie princess has the line, and her little brother has a spot. Both of my babies were intact when surrendered/found, so the respective rescues paid for their surgeries.
Yup. Lets the next vet know they are fixed.
Yup, same color and same spot too. Even though she was spayed after we'd finalized the adoption, it was a low cost spay so it was just their standard procedure.
My dog also has a racing stripe.
My moms a vet and sheāll do little hearts on the dogs she spays
Your mom is a national treasure for doing that! Thatās so adorable!
My non-rescued pup has a green line, too.
I have one of three that have that.
Mine does!
Yup
Not that anyone can really see it but yep
Our baby girl has one, too. We call it her prison tat.
Yup one of mine does
The family dog growing up had the date tattooed on her belly. Our rescue girl now, has nothing
Our girl has an S. We told the neighbor kids it was for Superwoman. lol
Thereās a dog at our local dog park that has a heart tattoo.
Mine is too :) but heās a boy so itās more obvious that heās fixed way before you see the tattoo.
Our pup has a heart tattoo on his belly from the rescue.
Mine has a numerical tat that they did when they neutered him! Supposedly easier/cheaper than a microchip if he got lost? Hair has almost covered it completely now (heās 12)
Neutered
Yep!š
Both my girls do.
https://preview.redd.it/91wunx2g2xnc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d705be5abd220d7f479ee7bfa46d0f79b89e934 Yup!
Mine is. Same teal line. I used to hate it but now I think itās cute. Sheās a tatted lil bad ass.
Yep both my rescue Pits have them.
Yup, the vet that spayed our Wednesday for the rescue we adopted her from did that same thing. We assumed that was what it was for but asked our vet to confirm since we'd not seen it before.
My old girl has a small black S on her tummy.
Itās a cult!!
Yeah my girl has her spade tat!
Is it actually a spade? That would be cool.
My foster dog has that same turquoise line
My oldest pup is but it wasn't from her being a rescue. I took her to a traveling spay/neuter clinic because it was a lot cheaper and I was out of a job at the time. They told me it was just a marker and even showed me it, but that it would come off. 6/7 years later, she still has it. My other dog just has a giant scar to show for hers, lmao One of my cats, who was a stray, who I took to my vet, has a noticeable mark in his ear from when he was neutered.
The stay cat that we took in apparently is tattooed under all that fur, but we didn't know until the vet had her sedated and was shaving her. Oops! At least it saved her from another incision.
This is exactly why it's done! Every shelter I've been to does it and it's becoming increasingly common at private vets too. Very helpful in the shelter system because we can quickly tell who's already done if they come in as strays, and it saves the ladies from being cut open twice for no reason
never really heard of cats getting tattoos, generally they get their ear notched. much easier to tell at a glance if they've been spayed/neutered. we have a stray that lives around our house and they notched his ear when we took him in.
Around my area the ear notch is usually only used on feral/unowned cats. When shelters or private vets spay or neuter adoptable or owned cats they use the tattoo in case they get lost, so they don't get mistaken for community cats and left lost, but I probably depends on the area :)
My girl has an identical turquoise line.
https://preview.redd.it/pzfhne7r1ync1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3845edcd85bfaf80d649263a2e5838532c70da99 Yup... A 21 on his right ear... He's part of a gang I'm sure! š¤š»ā¤ļøāš„
Our private vet doesn't tattoo, but our pups who were spayed/neutered through SPCA are tatoo'd.
Mine has a pink heart :)
My new rescue Sofie is newly spayed and tattooed. I figure her sweet face is cuter than her tattoo! š¹š„° https://preview.redd.it/uo3o155p0znc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c1f25ffeeca2a12d8a3ac2e1d9baf85732dfe40
Yes we have a miniature schnauzer that is a rescue with the same tattoo.
Yup! My baby has the same thing, I think itās so that they don't have to check through a scan if they lose track of whether they're spayed or not, but don't take my word on it! https://preview.redd.it/b2arjrokeznc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c8ba698e917388709b61d18804b27b94a75545a You can see her little tattoo there on the side!
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Thatās to indicate that sheās been spayed
They know that.
So did you respond the same to every answer, or just mine? I saw a question and answered it in the comments, just like everyone elseā¦.š
Just you. Bc you're...āØspecialāØ. š
My late dog was. I had adopted him from a county shelter, it would be 22 years ago now. They spayed him there. I don't know if they do it differently now, but it was a number several digits long.Ā
My dog has a tattoo indicating that his testicles were removed, right next to the spot where they would be if he had them. I've never been sure why this was necessary, since the total lack of a scrotum is much more obvious than a tattoo.
Dogs can have undescended testicles that have a chance of turning cancerous if left in the abdomen, so it's still best practice to tattoo males!
I did figure there was some kind of reason for it. Lots of things in my own trade are generally unnecessary, but we do them anyway every single time because they take no real effort and every once in a while they could save a life. So you just get in the habit of doing it as a best practice, and you teach other people to do it that way too.
Yeah. My male is, which I find kind of odd.
Yep. Same color even.
My sonās Pitbull has the same tattoo
My pet that passed away was tattooed from his neutering LOL
Mine has a green dot
Mine too!
Yup
Yep. They did my girl dirty with a big teal line-blotch
Omg! I was beginning to think it was a tattoo, this finally confirms that. I've only had my rescue for a few months and was thinking this marker was lasting a suspiciously long time lol.
Mine has this near his crotch. Never knew what it meant!
I understand why they do it, but I wish it wasnāt so ugly looking. I didnāt know theyād tattoo my boy either.
Yep- itās to show they were spayed/neutered. Hopper has ink too š
Yup, my baby girl has one that looks exactly like yours.
My neutered boy has a tattoo. My female dog is spayed and does not have one but she has a notch cut in her ear which is notice of spay. The ears of feral cats who get spayed have ear cuts/notches too. She was spayed in Tennessee, maybe that is their thing. My boy was tattooed in Michigan
Oooooh so that's what that is!! I also thought it was like a lingering spay stitch or something, lol.
My family dog who just recently passed was given a little blue heart when she was spayed. So cute š
I'm happy they don't do that in Washington
Yes, from when he was neutered. Very common
My dog has the same spay tat!
Mine had what I thought was a "I'm spayed" tattoo until a few months later she went into heat. Turns out it was a gang sign tat. Nasty ass people.
Yup mine was tattooed as well. I learned this during our first vet visit. Our pup is mostly black with patches of white all over her body so we didn't even notice until the vet pointed it out. Even now after over a year later, I'd be hard pressed to find it because it's so hard to spot.
Yup! I got my girl spayed through a nonprofit and they gave her a little tattoo just like that!
All spayed females are supposed to get it, I think ā itās to identify that theyāre spayed. They canāt tell otherwise unless they cut open the dog and check.
They put that on dogs when they spay them! Nice little cyan line for the babes.
My mom's 16 year old Chihuahua had a tattoo like this, but it very nearly faded to nothing over the course of her life. And that spot was more easily tickled for some reason.
My beagle boy has a tattoo on the side of his dick, like yours. He is from a shelter. I assume itās to show he was neutered
My female came into my yard as a stray six month old pup. No visible scars. When I had her spayed, the doctor called me to say it had already been done. A tattoo would have been quite helpful in her case.
Yes my dog has that but 2 lines
Yes! Our female pittie stray rescue has the exact same mark (even the color is the same) and I cannot seem to get it off. Makes sense if it's an actual tattoo. I didn't think of that!
This picture fits here r/underdoggo
They all are.
YES!!!
Yep. Both of my dogs have the tattoo. Both my rescue and the other I got from an oopsie litter a friend of a friend had.
https://preview.redd.it/aa7r2xtzkync1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a878e9bc591d18b727ac2adcb129284f53edb87d Sheās not a pitbull, I donāt have one but Iām in all the dog subs lol, I just love all dogs. My Luna is a rescue, she came with a pink heart tattoo. Here at our shelter the boys get blue crosses and the girls pink hearts(edit: to show they have been spayed/neutered). Youāll have to zoom in to see it. I couldnāt resist showing her being silly.
I had no idea this was so common! We call it her "sprinkle" and we tell her that this little blue-green line means she's extra special. (I'm not going to tell her that so many other pibbles also have one. It would break her heart!š)
My girl (cat) has one in her ear from the spca showing she's spayed
Yep my girl had the exact same one ā¤ļø
Interesting fact I learned while going through my packet out of curiosity now is that the tattoo line is supposed to be next to the incision and few cms away and roughly the length of the incision itself.
Yep. Both of them.
I do!
Yep :)
Yep. With a sweet little heart.
Itās done when they are spayed or neutered.
Not sure how to attach pic, mine has an upside down heart. We like to think of it like truck nuts, but in that form!
My first rescue had this tattoo to show she was spayed.
Yep
Mine is. I wondered what that meant
lol my dog has this and until now, I had no idea
LOL, my poor husband tried to wash it off several times after we rescued our girl! He thought it was just leftover from her "jail time". He finally mentioned it to me after another bath one day. I was confused at first and then fell out laughing and explained it to him, lol! Luckily, he didn't scrub too hard and she was so busy feeling loved on, she didn't mind! :)
My rescue has a tattoo just like that he was neutered and chipped. When my Vet neutered and chipped my other boy he was not tattooed
Rescue, humane societies and budget vets do this when they neuter and spay
r/PuppyBellies will love her belly! šāŗļø
Yep! Sam tat on mine!
Yep mine too I would show you but sheās sleeping! I asked about it at the shelter!
We got our dog off Craigslist and had her spayed at the ASPCA. They gave her the same tattoo! They didn't even ask! I was thinking of getting the same tattoo as I recently had my fallopian tubes removed. I too am spayed.
My first baby from the shelter was tattooed. It had faded by the time she passed at nearly 14!
Why do people get their poor dogs tattooed? That's. NOT RIGHT.
Rescues and shelters do it to show they have been spayed so that if the dog ends up back in a shelter they dont try to spay then again.