Guys and their feelings about neutering

[PixieSticksandTricks]

That was our fear with Tucker when we had him neutered. That it may change him too much and he wouldn't be Tucker anymore. But he was still goofy Tucker when he came home. He just stopped humping, hiking his leg, and he stopped guarding Maggie against other dogs completely. Also before Tucker was neutered he NEVER sat still. I mean NEVER. I never saw him sleep outside of his crate until after he was neutered. Before he would just go go go and just tired me out just watching him lol. So it did calm him down that way and that was a positive too.

It was hard to keep him quiet for the healing period. Which I expect it will be even harder with Sawyer. I also have no idea how im gonna keep Sawyer away from his stitches. I really don't think he is going to tolerate a E Collar at all. And I don't know if im gonna be able to keep cloth shorts on his behind like I did with Tucker. That is gonna be really interesting.

LOL now im kinda dreading getting him neutered!

 

[bubbatd]

To me it depends on " issues " and health . I never had problems with "issues " and only had one male neutered at 12 because of health , my last 2 came in neutered .

 

[Fran101]

Im always worried about anestisia (sp) but that comes with any surgery, not just spay and neuter

 

[PixieSticksandTricks]

Im always worried about anestisia (sp) but that comes with any surgery, not just spay and neuter

Yeah that always makes me nervous. Every time I take a pet in to be spayed or neutered I usually am holding my breath for the rest of the day.

 

[sillysally]

That was our fear with Tucker when we had him neutered. That it may change him too much and he wouldn't be Tucker anymore. But he was still goofy Tucker when he came home. He just stopped humping, hiking his leg, and he stopped guarding Maggie against other dogs completely. Also before Tucker was neutered he NEVER sat still. I mean NEVER. I never saw him sleep outside of his crate until after he was neutered. Before he would just go go go and just tired me out just watching him lol. So it did calm him down that way and that was a positive too.

Man I *wish* it had calmed Sally down--didn't work that way for us though. Everyone was telling us that we shouldn't get her fixed because she would get lazy....we're still waiting......

 

[bubbatd]

Does it really calm them down ???

 

[elegy]

But c'mon, doesn't it make you a little bit queasy to consider ANY alteration to an animal?

admittedly i did get a little queasy about taking harv's eyeball out, but that's because eyeballs in general gross me out. i don't have issues with spay/neuter. oh i get nervous about anesthesia and general surgery risks, but i've not qualms about the taking out their bits part.

in fairness to the guys, i've also run into plenty of women who won't spay their bitches because they're just certain "she just wants to be a mama". how they're so certain the dog wants to be a mama and isn't a dog who is going to, you know, eat her puppies or something i don't know.

 

[PixieSticksandTricks]

Does it really calm them down ???

It worked for Tucker!

 

[mrose_s]

I don't really understand their getting emotionally attached to a male dogs genetalia, but if they are willing to be responsible about it, then fine.
I would prefer not to desex my male dogs, I'll be happy to if its in breeder contract or something.
I've always lived with intact females, and seriously, unless I plan on showing or breeding, heats are too annoying.
The only reasion we desexed our boys was because we already had 2 intact girls. Harry we kept entire for a year but he just got too much when one of them came into heat. He broke more than one door in an attempt to get to Sophie, and that was before he was 12months old.

 

[FluffyZooCrew]

I didn't notice any change in my guys either... all were the same active, energetic, loveable furballs that they were before the procedure. They didn't become fat or lazy or inactive or anything else. It only stopped the negative behaviors, such as hiking and humping.

 

[BostonBanker]

Almost all the other boys (including his father) were intact until death (dad was 12 yrs old BTW) because it wasn't a problem for them.

:rofl1: When I was skimming your post, I thought you were referring to YOUR father being intact until his death. I wondered why you were bragging that your father apparently sired you at 12....

Right. Must remember to read for content.

 

[FluffyZooCrew]

BB -- :rofl1:

 

[corgipower]

I hear this a lot but we neutered Jack at a year and he was still Jack--just with less humping of random dogs (he and Sally still go at each other) and no more leg lifting. then, oddly enough, the leg lifting came back at age 2, and has not left us since--lol.

Tyr's the only dog I've felt that way about. Half his personality seems related to his sex drive.

He doesn't mark inappropriately though and he only humps other dogs.

I did have one female go through a major personality change after being spayed, so I get nervous that I'll have to go through that again too.

 

[gosgirl]

What good is it doing to keep him intact if you have no plans for that that requires such? I like you let my dogs mature before getting them altered. I just personally think it's better for the dog that way.



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[sillysally]

What good is it doing to keep him intact if you have no plans for that that requires such? I like you let my dogs mature before getting them altered. I just personally think it's better for the dog that way.

The next dog I get will likely be male, and I will wait longer than I did with Jack--perhaps until 2 years old. I think Jack would have filled out more if I had waited longer.

 

[StillandSilent]

Puss was the only one or our animals I knew when he was intact, and he was 8 years worth of nasty, hormonal, humping Persian cat. Now he's 11 years old worth of nasy humping cat, but you can't win them all!
Argon was done way to early (10 weeks!) by the rescue and I wonder if that doesn't have something to do with his funny legs now.

 

[Lauren17]

The next dog I get will likely be male, and I will wait longer than I did with Jack--perhaps until 2 years old. I think Jack would have filled out more if I had waited longer.

I never knew that it was a good idea to wait until they were older. My vet always has told us to spay/neuter early. all of mine have been well under a year when they were neutered/spayed.

But I don't trust my vet at all after having Duke neutered. He was the only one that was older when we had him neutered because thats when we found him. He swelled up so much it looked like he had a soccor ball hanging between his legs! It was oozing and awful! When my dad picked him up all they said was that he had a reaction to the surgery and it was smaller then but by that night it was huge. He couldn't lay down so he slept with his butt in the air. They should not have had us take him home that day. Now my neighbor just had a stray they took in neutered and the same thing happened.

 

[colliewog]

:rofl1: When I was skimming your post, I thought you were referring to YOUR father being intact until his death. I wondered why you were bragging that your father apparently sired you at 12....

Right. Must remember to read for content.

I almost spit up my drink! :rofl1:

 

[Barb04]

It does calm them down - for the first 24 hours!

 

[corgipower]

It does calm them down - for the first 24 hours!

That's because they're still groggy from the anesthesia.