[Ladymom]

Originally Posted by TLC

Honestly - Those boys SHOULD be neutered!

Not only are you protecting them from cancer (search for it and you'll see that having dogs spayed and neutered does protect them from getting cancer). Secondly you are going to have a handful of issues for many years to come. Neutering them will calm them down, will slow down the aggression, will help with the constant marking and humping.

It totally blows my mind when I read that ppl don't spay and neuter

Having two intact males in the same household is not going to work.

Testosterone aggravates a number of undesirable behavioral tendencies : deliberate leg-lifting or "marking" indoors, sexual advances towards inappropriate objects (ranging from table legs to your Aunt Minnie's legs), aggressive behavior by your male against other male dogs and , even more, by other males initiated against your male (which can result in fights yielding serious injury and serious vet bills), and general willingness to duke it out with you for position of pack leader (which can result in serious bites). Also , as mentioned above, escaping and roaming is heavily fueled by testosterone.

To clarify the male - male fight issue, the scent of testosterone on your male dog will inspire other males to initiate fights against him. Even if your male is himself very peacefully inclined, being intact makes him a target. Just think of it as a teenaged boy walking around the city unknowingly wearing "gang colors" : sooner or later he wanders into the wrongh part of town and is attacked.

WHY YOUR MALE DOG SHOULD BE NEUTERED