Spay - laparoscopic worth the extra?

[gandalfspants]

Spaying our small (working) cocker bitch over Xmas, so we can be home with her 24/7 for recovery.

Our vet has said her size is borderline for the laparoscopic spay being worth it, but did say recover might be ever so slightly quicker. They'd recommend it if she was any bigger.

I'm pretty convinced we'll go for the laparoscopic, I had smaller animals before and though I've never had them spayed (males!), I know for rats and ferrets it's much better, so would assume the same for dogs?.

I just wondered what opinions were on here?

Mine have all had the old style spay, not laparascopic.

I couldn't have expected the recovery to be any faster, so I would probably just go for the normal op again.

Thanks. I take it recovery was pretty quick then?

One of my foster puppies was done laprascopically (local vets did it for free as they wanted to up their numbers), and she had it done at 12 and was bouncing off walls at 5 when we picked her up. I don't think she had any downtime at all, and no cone either

I hadn't even considered the cone!

(I'm not totally clueless I promise, DH gets dogs in the division of labour so I just don't give them a lot of headspace, the cats are boys so their op was easy peasy)

I should have said we've got two and the other one is under 1, lively and a lick machine, so anything we can do to avoid having to separate for much time is great.

I felt there was def less downtime with laprascopic & yes avoids cone which I feel is a big plus - no dog likes them and so hard for them to get comfortable and get a drink when they need one.