[MandiesMom]

I'm going to do some more reading based on the info some of you have posted here.

I'm not sure (and I do need to read more - I basically read fast and try to hit the highlights) that the inate problem was touched on in the article about "is it ethical to neuter" ..umm, how was it put "controlled"? "non-breeding"? Anyway...if a dog is NOT meant for breeding, I'm still trying to figure out how it is anything BUT ethical to neuter him? His basic drive is to reproduce. That's how nature made him.

I need to read more because I must have missed this topic in the studies. How is it helpful to a dog to be "controlled" or whatever you want to call it..kept from mating..and NOT neuter him? That's like purposeful torture, in my mind. The dog is meant by nature to breed. He's not allowed to by ME but I don't take that inate drive away from him? That's just mean and sick if you ask me.

Please tell me I missed that part of the "ethics" study....