honestly I don't think that I would want to neuter my dog if I were to ever get another male dog. I would never mate my pets, but if I already have spayed females then I see no point in neutering imo.
-that is so odd becoming that way at 6 months - but they do go through a 'fear' period around 5-7 months where something might happen that cause them to be fearful and they never recover. But I have had dogs castrated in this window (6 months) and they were not traumatized by it. Every dog is different, though. OTOH, after 6 months, he is developing his adult personality, which may be very much different from his puppy personality, regardless of being castrated.
I agree - you don't need to neuter your dog if you don't want to with no intact females to worry about, as long as you are always in control of his whereabouts. I always say, "a leash and a 6 foot fence are both good forms of birth control." A responsible owner is in control of their dog, and is in charge of whether a dog breeds or not. I castrated only my males who insisted on lifting their leg in the house. Some lived their whole lives intact, because they had good house manners, and I have never had an unintended breeding. It's all in the animal management. I know MO is unpopular here, but I know we tpfers are able to agree to disagree in a polite manner.
In some European countries it is illegal to castrate your dog unless for health reasons. Interesting.
CAts are a whole 'nother ball o' wax - the males will be impossible to live with if they are not castrated. Spraying everywhere and it is 1000X a more awful smell than castrated cat pee!
I agree - you don't need to neuter your dog if you don't want to with no intact females to worry about, as long as you are always in control of his whereabouts. I always say, "a leash and a 6 foot fence are both good forms of birth control." A responsible owner is in control of their dog, and is in charge of whether a dog breeds or not. I castrated only my males who insisted on lifting their leg in the house. Some lived their whole lives intact, because they had good house manners, and I have never had an unintended breeding. It's all in the animal management. I know MO is unpopular here, but I know we tpfers are able to agree to disagree in a polite manner.
In some European countries it is illegal to castrate your dog unless for health reasons. Interesting.
CAts are a whole 'nother ball o' wax - the males will be impossible to live with if they are not castrated. Spraying everywhere and it is 1000X a more awful smell than castrated cat pee!
I think a lot of people are pro neutering because of the cancer risks. My parents owned an intact male sheltie and never had any problems but my mom is the first to say she would never do that again. And I agree about the tom cats, my neutered boys go nuts around spayed females, I couldn't imagine them being intact.
-mounting isn't always a sexual thing - it is also a dominant behavior; I have two female littermates, one is dominant to the other, and the dominant one humps the other one!
Of course, I don't know the exact details with your doggie.
Does he mount humans? - that is a BIG no-no and calls for some definite corrrection/scolding/retraining by you.
With castration, some of my dogs changed a little, some did not...
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