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Originally Posted by MyFairLacy  If I ever get a male puppy, he will be neutered as soon as I bring him home..between 12 and 16 weeks...no later than 16 weeks for sure. I don't mind waiting a little longer for a spay but not a neuter. I want to stop problematic behavior before it begins. I'm personally not worried about the supposed negatives..I really don't believe there are any negatives to neutering. |
i'm with you. as soon as those things drop and he's a good size, he's getting them chopped off.
I don't agree with the list of reason NOT to neuter that Ellie May cited off another website. The reason it appears that more neutered males have these issues is because more pets are neutered then left intact so the percentages are going to be off base. Say i did a survey off all the male dogs that come into my hospital and i screen then for some of the issues listed. I do this over a course of a year. I'm definitely going to get a higher percentage of neutered males then intact males because most pet owners have their animals spayed/neutered. so that's not saying that intact males also don't have these problems, its just that there is less of them so of course the percentage is going to be less.
i did not read the sites listed to see if they took a large quantity of equal numbers of intact and neutered males