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Originally Posted by maryj  My little boy will be six mths next week. I think i need to postpone it, after reading the comments here. Better to wait and see if we have to deal with the baby teeth removal...at what age should they have all their adult teeth?
I cant tell the difference when i look in his mouth...I just know some in lower front have just come in. they dont look different. I saw him "mark" once and i yelled and i havent seen him ever do it since. He has been lifting his leg and humping from about 3 mths old. |
I had my boy neutered at 7 1/2 months. He is small so we wanted to wait until he weighed a little more so we wouldn't have to worry about putting him under at a low weight. Geno did a lot of chewing but he still had baby teeth. They just pulled his baby teeth when he got neutered - I think there was 5 that needed pulled. If he chews a lot, he should have lost a good amount of them. I don't know about your vet, but ours had us bring Geno in before the actual neutering for him to get bloodwork to make sure he was cleared to get neutuered. At that appointment is when they also told us they would pull the baby teeth so your vet would be able to tell you about him needing teeth pulled or not.
I'd start nipping the humping in the butt now cause they will probably still hump even after getting neutered. Of course they probably won't hump as much as before the neutering but it's still an annoying behavior and one that shows dominance especially if he's doing it to you. They also can still mark too after neutering. I've heard that neutering helps with humping and marking which it does but I think to the point that it only lessens the frequency. They'll still do it regardless which is why they need trained that it is an unwanted behavior, which you had with the marking and that's good. Lifting the leg is just a dog preference. Some squat, some lift the leg. Geno lifts his leg almost at a 90 degree angle haha I don't scold for lifting the leg. It's just how he wants to go potty.