I've had several rescues in my life that were spayed after I got them. They ultimately got mammary tumors and dear Sookatish, found at a flea market with her puppy (the pup was the giveaway). By the time we left, they didn't want to part with the puppy, and Sooka, with her luxurious black coat with the gunmetal gray undercoat and her blue eye, came home with us.
Sooka was spayed. And then as she aged, the tumors came...singly, in clusters, and finally, she was stripped of mammary tissue on one side, but cancer metastacized and she was euthanized.
She was a joy and a blessing. Who knows how many puppies she had had.
Right now, Buffy has a mammary tumor. With Sooka, we had them removed immediately, and it seemed the faster we had them removed, the faster they appeared. So with Buffy, I knew it was there, and I've let it grow. She is in no pain and has had it for a couple of years now. I have had conversations with people who have had cancer themselves, and in their pets. They all say the same - that once the patient is opened for surgery, it seems to spread. Buffy was a stray I found in a high kill animal control in Los Angeles, on the internet. I had her pulled, spayed and shipped to me. She has lived a happy life and I think she is between 10 and 12. When she shows tenderness, pain, or otherwise distress, then she will be treated if age and prognosis dictates.
http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_mammary_tumors__canine_.html
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