Many, many shelters started doing this in 1993 because over 50% of people adopting young puppies and kittens never had them spayed/neutered as promised. With millions of animals being euthanized every year early spay/neuter has proven to lower animals being euthanized.
"Skeletal growth is controlled by the hormones of puberty. Prepubertally
sterilized animals have a slowing in the closure of their growth plates. The result is slightly more growth of the long bones. There is not scientific data indicating this represents a problem. We do have years of anecdotal evidence that these prepube animals are leaner,lankier, and live longer healthier lives.
What little issues have been found is in large breed dogs.
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There are some breeders that will not release their puppies until this has been done because they have been burned by people not fixing their dogs as they said they would and these breeders want to protect their lines.
Since your puppy is not from a shelter and hopefully you are a strong believer in nuetering your little one I would wait until he gets a little older.
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