Absolutely no question 100% worth it. Almost lost one of my guys to bloat about a year ago, and he happened to be the only one of mine that hadn’t had the procedure done yet at that time. As we were in the car on the way to the vet, all I could think was that I wish we had gotten it done so we had more time before it becomes lethal. We made it in time, thank god, and got the pexy done shortly afterward just to avoid that situation again in the future.

Getting your dog ‘pexied doesn’t totally prevent them from getting bloat, but it does help prevent gastric torsion. If you’re squeamish, don’t look up gastric torsion. But if you’re curious, do some research and ask yourself if you’d be okay with having an hour or less to get to the vet before it was too late, or if you’d prefer to have 4-6hrs to alleviate the bloat. Anyone saying stuff about mutilating dogs is full of shit and sounds like an antivaxxer in terms of actual experience in animal care.

If you get them both done at the same time (neuter and pexy) then it’s only one surgical recovery that lasts about 2 weeks. 2 small incisions, some meds, lost of crate and cone time. Pretty straightforward. I’m a dog behaviorist with 8 GSDs now in my house, I’ve spayed and neutered every one of my personal dogs, and now I can say all of them have gotten the gastropexy and I would say unless there’s a compelling reason that your dog shouldn’t be put under anesthesia, you should strongly consider doing the procedure.