Our female was soon one year old when she got her pyometra. She had been in heat over and over again only with a few days pause in between. She hadn’t got time for anything else but call for a mating partner so she began to be skinny and we decided to let her mate our stud. We didn’t want to put her on pills before she had got her first litter.
So we let her and our stud mate. Our female got pregnant and we were happy. Everything seemed to be normal at the beginning, but after five weeks of pregnancy, suddenly she wasn’t as hungry as before and we got a bit worried, but she seemed to feel well so we thought it was something temporary.
After six weeks of pregnancy i woke up early one morning of that she sounded strange and were pushing as if she was going to get birth and my bed were real bloody.
You can only imagine how chocked I was!!!
Of course I rushed out of my bed and woke Conny up and he to take care of our female wile I called the vet and told him that we were coming now! (a big animal hospital)
At the vet they did an ultrasound and told us that our female had absorbed her babies and now was pushing out what was left.
we got  penicillin (vetrimoxin) for our female to prevent infection the vet said.
We went home and started the penicillin cure.

After five days our female still dripped blood and I was worried and called back to the vet and we got another sort of penicillin (Baytril) to give our female instead.

After three days it came no more blood out from our female. Now it came pus! Much pus and she had got fever.
Once again I called the same vet. I wanted him to take a test on our female to see what germ it was so that she could get the right treatment and medicine.

 

It was now the real hard part of it all began, and I think many people in this devastated situation when the little darling is sick can't manage to stand against the vet’s opinion.
 Read the continuation and see how we managed to keep our female in breeding
  in spite of what the vets said.

This time I was met by hostility and they refused to take any tests. They wanted to neuter our female.
 I didn’t wanted to hear about such things if anything could save our female and I had heard by contacts out broad that there they never neuter a cat with pyometra in the beginning of sickness before they have tried treatment and many cats has been saved this way in continuing breeding without fader problems.
 
 I started to call every vet I could think about, but they all wanted to neuter. I was devastated but wouldn’t give up something I believed in, but at this time I didn’t had that much hope left.
 
 I just had to speak to someone so I called a breeding friend and complained and asked her if she new a good vet.
 She wanted to help me and started to call vets she new. She even talked to other breeding friends to see what they could help with and everybody helped me call more vets.
 I took a brake to think and then I called Ulltuna research centre, asked to get hold on the best person in this matter they had and one Eva Axner came to the phone and I explained my matter and she said NO, no, no. Don't neuter your female!
 You can't imagine how happy I was!! This gave me new hope.
 Eva told me that with very good results you can treat with prostaglandin (dinolytek) in combination with penicillin in difficult cases.
 
 This has to be done under a vets supervition. The female will be given shots once a day with dinolytek for three to five days. Normally the cat has to be at the hospital this time. The cat can also get reactions that has to be taken cared of by a vet, but nothing serious.