Best age to neuter puppy
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>>FWIW I have been told that horses are not gelded till >they have reached full growth as the male hormone is required to get >full strength to the bones. If done too soon the animal does not >fully develop. >Colts are usually gelded at or before a year of age — the most common >recommendation I’ve heard is "wait for the testicles to drop" which >would amount to doing it as soon as possible. Skeletal development is >not affected, but musculature may be. I’m not that much in the horse >community but I’d be really surprised if many people are waiting until 4 >years to geld.
Unless it is a racehorse- in which case they usually wait to see how they’ll do on the track before they geld- indeed most pleasure and draft horse breeds are gelded before a year of age unless they are considered stallion prospects. They actually grow *taller* if they are gelded early- testosterone makes the growth plates close earlier. However, while he may be shorter the typical stallion is generally more muscular and has a bigger crest than his gelded counterpart. Laura Behning Brookridge Morgans http://www.mindspring.com/~morgans/Laura.htm
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>FWIW I have been told that horses are not gelded till >they have reached full growth as the male hormone is required to get >full strength to the bones. If done too soon the animal does not >fully develop.
Colts are usually gelded at or before a year of age — the most common recommendation I’ve heard is "wait for the testicles to drop" which would amount to doing it as soon as possible. Skeletal development is not affected, but musculature may be. I’m not that much in the horse community but I’d be really surprised if many people are waiting until 4 years to geld. Elizabeth Naime reply-to address rarely checked; reply in newsgroup or use elspeth at kc rr com. chmod a+x /bin/Laden
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>>FWIW I have been told that horses are not gelded till >they have reached full growth as the male hormone is required to get >full strength to the bones. If done too soon the animal does not >fully develop. > That’s not at all true with dogs: a 14 pound dog will be just fine if > neutered young.
If "fully develop" means "reaches full size", I agree that neutering doesn’t affect development. Our IG, neutered at 9 weeks, is actually on the large end of the scale for his breed. — http://erica.erkkila.org/ Alumna of RIT, and I never even met Vicki Robinson
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>FWIW I have been told that horses are not gelded till >they have reached full growth as the male hormone is required to get >full strength to the bones. If done too soon the animal does not >fully develop.
That’s not at all true with dogs: a 14 pound dog will be just fine if neutered young. Ann, Twzl, Sligo and Roy — I suppose women have nothing much to do and many of them go into dog training. It’s a vanity thing apparently. Ron Hardin
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FWIW I have been told that horses are not gelded till they have reached full growth as the male hormone is required to get full strength to the bones. If done too soon the animal does not fully develop. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >Hello, >We have a 14 week old male Dachshund. We are going to have him neutered, >and our vet suggested the best age is 6 months or older. >My sister’s vet, on the other hand, suggests between 3-4 months, because if >you don’t do it at an early age, he says the pup will develop the habit of >"hiking" his leg. >My vet does not see the correlation. I was wondering if anyone in this >newsgroup has experienced this happening, or has an opinion on the best age >to neuter. >Thanks, >Kathy
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> >behavior as far as I can tell. Interestingly, each male lifts a >different leg and consistently uses the same leg. Wonder if there’s >such a thing as left- and right-leggedness in dogs. 
> There is. If you want to see this, throw a ball or something that your dog > will fetch. Depending on their pawed-ness, they’ll probably consistently > turn in one direction or the other to come back to you.
Some dogs will turn both ways fairly easily, but you can still see a "one sidedness" if you ask them to back up. When backing a dog will curve into its weak side and away from the strong side–they take longer strides with the strong side.
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>behavior as far as I can tell. Interestingly, each male lifts a >different leg and consistently uses the same leg. Wonder if there’s >such a thing as left- and right-leggedness in dogs.
There is. If you want to see this, throw a ball or something that your dog will fetch. Depending on their pawed-ness, they’ll probably consistently turn in one direction or the other to come back to you. Ann, Twzl, Sligo and Roy — I suppose women have nothing much to do and many of them go into dog training. It’s a vanity thing apparently. Ron Hardin
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> Hello, > We have a 14 week old male Dachshund. We are going to have him neutered, > and our vet suggested the best age is 6 months or older. > My sister’s vet, on the other hand, suggests between 3-4 months, because if > you don’t do it at an early age, he says the pup will develop the habit of > "hiking" his leg > My vet does not see the correlation. I was wondering if anyone in this > newsgroup has experienced this happening, or has an opinion on the best age > to neuter.
Our male Italian Greyhound was neutered at 9 weeks of age by the breeder’s vet. There were no other males around and he did not lift his leg. When he was about a year a half old, we adopted a male toy poodle who was 8-10 years old and never neutered (we promptly had our vet do so), and he obviously lifted his leg on everything. The poodle, of course, continued to lift his leg after neutering, and shortly thereafter the IG picked up the habit from him. Although the IG doesn’t seem to try to pee *on* things as the poodle does, he’ll often stand in the middle of the yard with one leg up, at least a little bit. So, it can’t be attributed entirely to hormones but at least partly to learned behavior as far as I can tell. Interestingly, each male lifts a different leg and consistently uses the same leg. Wonder if there’s such a thing as left- and right-leggedness in dogs. > Thanks, > Kathy
– http://erica.erkkila.org/ Alumna of RIT, and I never even met Vicki Robinson
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I have never heard of any correlation between the two. Most vets I know like to wait until the animal is at least 6 months old. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hello, > We have a 14 week old male Dachshund. We are going to have him neutered, > and our vet suggested the best age is 6 months or older. > My sister’s vet, on the other hand, suggests between 3-4 months, because if > you don’t do it at an early age, he says the pup will develop the habit of > "hiking" his leg. > My vet does not see the correlation. I was wondering if anyone in this > newsgroup has experienced this happening, or has an opinion on the best age > to neuter. > Thanks, > Kathy
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Hello, We have a 14 week old male Dachshund. We are going to have him neutered, and our vet suggested the best age is 6 months or older. My sister’s vet, on the other hand, suggests between 3-4 months, because if you don’t do it at an early age, he says the pup will develop the habit of "hiking" his leg. My vet does not see the correlation. I was wondering if anyone in this newsgroup has experienced this happening, or has an opinion on the best age to neuter. Thanks, Kathy
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