What age was your dog neutered or spayed?

[Anonymous]

1 year 9 months female golden. Which is one of the only breeds that the AKC recommends not spaying.

But dog walkers won’t take her if she’s not spayed, and we want to be able to take her to parks

[Anonymous]

Around his 3rd birthday because that’s when the racing industry discarded him and a rescue took him.

[Anonymous]

Two of the three were spayed before we adopted them. One shortly after. The before were all pretty young - less than 16 weeks. One even has a blue "tattoo"

The other dog, the procedure was included with her adoption fees if we went to one of their preferred vets - IIRC, she was no more than 6 months old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two of the three were spayed before we adopted them. One shortly after. The before were all pretty young - less than 16 weeks. One even has a blue "tattoo"

The other dog, the procedure was included with her adoption fees if we went to one of their preferred vets - IIRC, she was no more than 6 months old.

What’s a tattoo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two of the three were spayed before we adopted them. One shortly after. The before were all pretty young - less than 16 weeks. One even has a blue "tattoo"

The other dog, the procedure was included with her adoption fees if we went to one of their preferred vets - IIRC, she was no more than 6 months old.

What’s a tattoo?

Just a thin blue/green line on the belly between hind legs. Commonly used to mark spayed/neutered animals (for TNR cats they also often clip one of the ears)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two of the three were spayed before we adopted them. One shortly after. The before were all pretty young - less than 16 weeks. One even has a blue "tattoo"

The other dog, the procedure was included with her adoption fees if we went to one of their preferred vets - IIRC, she was no more than 6 months old.

What’s a tattoo?

Just a thin blue/green line on the belly between hind legs. Commonly used to mark spayed/neutered animals (for TNR cats they also often clip one of the ears)

Bingo - I'm the poster about the blue tattoo. Never saw it until we adopted this one and then looked it up and saw it's a pretty common occurrence to indicate the dog has been spayed.

[Anonymous]

Our female Lab was spayed around 21 months old. The breeder said to wait until at least 18 months.

[Anonymous]

13 months for our male Golden. We debated waiting a few months longer, but the timing worked out to do it a little earlier.

[Anonymous]

2 years old for our female spinone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two of the three were spayed before we adopted them. One shortly after. The before were all pretty young - less than 16 weeks. One even has a blue "tattoo"

The other dog, the procedure was included with her adoption fees if we went to one of their preferred vets - IIRC, she was no more than 6 months old.

What’s a tattoo?

Just a thin blue/green line on the belly between hind legs. Commonly used to mark spayed/neutered animals (for TNR cats they also often clip one of the ears)

Bingo - I'm the poster about the blue tattoo. Never saw it until we adopted this one and then looked it up and saw it's a pretty common occurrence to indicate the dog has been spayed.

My dog has a dog friend (male, Golden Retriever from a breeder) who also has this tattoo, actually more like 3 small dots, and I've never understood why. Never been in a rescue situation and you can SEE he has no balls lol.

[Anonymous]

https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/when-should-you-neuter-or-spay-your-dog

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/when-should-you-neuter-or-spay-your-dog

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 years old. He comes from a champion line and was supposed to become a father. Our arrangement with the breeder was that we could have him if we did not neuter. Turns out the breeding matches did not materialize and he developed an enlarged prostate, which can happen with intact males. His prostate is now back to normal.

Poor guy!

This can happen even to neutered dogs. We have a dog who would be 12 who was neutered around 4 months (which was the vet recommendation at the time) who had to be put to sleep bc he had prostate and it got to the point that he couldn’t urinate.

[Anonymous]

Spay/neuter is a profit center for a lot of clinics and they will also recommend a gastroplexy if you have a large dog. Doing a dog you get means they’re smaller and easier to do surgery on. Lots of new research shows it should be done later though and the sex hormones are needed for proper development. I have 2 male pekes and will probably not neuter them unless there is an issue that call for it.