i believe that a simple surgery at a young age can prevent an expensive, messy, and painful surgery later. I see lots of males come in for surgery because they have perineal hernias. These hernias cause some serious pooping problems. Plus since there is a hole in that area, its hard to explain, but it creates pockets that poop gets stuck in. Before surgery we have to clean these pockets out and its not pretty. After surgery the dog will still have pooping problems for a while and their bum will hurt and get irritated not just from the surgery but from the bad poops. PLUS the dog needs to be castrated as well. This does NOT only happen in "old" dogs. I've seen them as young as 5 in small breed dogs.
this article is full of it, if you ask me.
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