Reply to The Debate on When to Spay or Neuter Your Dog

Forum Index » Pets

Reply to "The Debate on When to Spay or Neuter Your Dog"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With our first couple dogs, they were neutered around the typical-in-the-US 6 mos.  Those were all shelter/rescue puppies.  Our latest dog is an English lab from a breeder who strongly recommended waiting until 2 years, saying that was best for the full bone structure to develop.  However, we ended up doing it at 16 mos [b]because he could not be around other dogs from mounting all of them. I supposed he would have outgrown that with training and time but neutering definitely showed a sharp reduction in the behavior so I'm glad we did it. [/quote][/b]

I'm seeing way too much of this out at the parks and I've begun to lose patience with it. I of course had some of the same concerns for my own puppy, but looked at the actual rates and thought it was a minimal decrease in issues between about 10 months and later and neutered him then. Leading up to the neuter, he was also attacked a few times as other dogs can take issue with unaltered males. The whole thing was stressful and the more he was humped the more he began to hump and I was just done with that. You also can't board or do doggy daycare with un neutered dogs.

If you live on a farm and can carefully control dog interactions maybe it's fine, but I live in the city and I think if your dog is meeting and playing with other dogs they really should be neutered. It's pretty antisocial behavior and while people will cut you some slack for a 6 month old humper it's a lot harder to tolerate as they get past a year. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics