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Originally Posted by melmorr  Paladin had no health issues at the time of his surgery. The vet recommended he be fix because we had an intact female that we had adopted but could not be fix yet due to some health issues with her. She said it would be very hard on him to be around an intact female when she did go into season. I have no way of knowing if this would have been hard for him or not as he didn’t survive. What I have learned it that he should at his advanced age Not have been fixed as the risk of the Anastasia was greater than the benefit of fixing him. The only thing she did was line her pocket and nothing more. |
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I can answer some of the question of would it have been hard on him at 10 yrs old to live in a home with a female in season? Part of the answer would be more informed if you or I knew the reason he did not survive the operation. Was pre op blood work done for instance? To help ascertain if his organs were healthy enough for anaesthesia? Were his lungs and heart in good condition?
But given good lungs and heart. When a female that lives in your home goes into heat, full males and for that matter neutered males, will and can not help but to smell the scent. Their interest in the female starts to become heightened. The worse period of time is when the female goes into something that is called standing heat which lasts for 4 maybe 5 days. Then the males whine and cry, and try their darnest to get to the female for mating. Now how hard would this be on a 10yrs old male, who has never before lived with an intact female, is and pardon the pun, hard to say. The arousal will increase heart rate and respiration, but with healthy heart and lungs, not such a health risk.
What is hard though is keeping the two separated for the whole duration of the heat. This means separate exercise times, and what is called crate and rotate.