To Snip or Not to Snip

[madra_liath]

EDIT: I'm gonna go ahead and have him done. Thanks for the advice and anecdotes, everybody

Comments

[logosh]

Sweeping statement is sweeping

[logosh]

Blanket statements are fun, yes? So all working dogs including police, hunting, and military should be fixed?

[logosh]

Honestly is you do not meet the requirements of a responsible breeder or the dog does not have health risks that could be exacerbated by neutering, then I'd just go ahead and do it. Truth be told yes, I've had dogs or worked with dogs that I regretted it with, but I got over it. If your dog is just a pet with nothing that could possibly ever be gained from not neutering, you really should

[logosh]

*if. Typo fail

[madra_liath]

I don't understand my own hesitancy, tbh. That's why I wanted to get some other perspectives, preferably from people who have been through this before.

[logosh]

There's a lot of good things to come from it :)
I've been through this decision several times and in the end I was glad I did

[suidae]

Just neuter him. As long as he is in good health for the surgery there really is no excuse for not doing it.

Honestly though... questions like this make my blood boil. I really don't get why this is such a confusion/mystifying concept.

[logosh]

It's because of a lot of myths and anecdotes that have become popular, (such as fixing your pet makes it lazy and/or fat) so people see it as truth. While bad things can occasionally occur from fixing a pet, it really doesn't outweigh the good in most cases

[suidae]

No, I understand that there is ignorance out there. But when someone comes in saying "I know the benefits, I just don't feel like doing it" it's really upsetting. Especially after seeing the pet population explode, mammary cancer in some of my work's nonspayed patients, people abandoning their tom cat because it's "urine smells/over-aggression" and all of the other things that could have been avoided if they had fucking spayed their pets. idk, I think this kind of question (coming from a person who stated that they are "educated" on the subject) is just *really* stupid.

GUAH... sorry XD like I said, blood boiling.

[thexphial]

My mom didn't want to get it done for our cocker spaniel and we regretted it later. It's a fairly simple operation for male dogs and good for both the animal and society to get it done.