Coping With Spaying

I recently lost my beloved pug of 7 years due to an infected uterus. She had not been spayed and our vet had suggested it several times. We did not want to put her through a surgery that we thought was not needed. We thought of all of the excuses that it will change her personality, she will get lazy and fat, etc… We learned the hard way how important it is to have your pet spayed. She developed an infection in her uterus and she became septic and her body shut down. It happened fairly quick and nothing could help her. It is really painful to know that we could have prevented this if we had her spayed. Hopefully someone may read this, and her death can prevent another family from going through what we are going through. There is a lot of guilt knowing something so simple could have saved her life.