Pediatric neutering was already (for me) almost a flat "no" (except that inability to protect females and contain males to absolutely avoid accidental pregnancies trumps almost everything else for me).
But this goes way beyond pediatric neutering, to include an increased risk of mast cell tumors and hemangiosarcoma in dogs neutered after 12 months.
The whole thing is well worth reading.
It also brings up for me even more uncertainly about females .... never as simple for me as deciding about males (in terms of long-term health, I mean). I don't know if I know enough to detect closed pyo, and the stats on that are alarming, including a Swedish study finding pyo incident among intact females up to 25% (lifetime).
Caterina's Pyo is the reason I got her and Toni fixed (Drift will be done this spring). Scared the hell out of me- and it was an open Pyo.
I'd read everything available about pros and cons with spaying them- thought I could detect a Pyo and deal with it in time. I did, but the experience left me with those terrifying "what if" thoughts. What if I hadn't seen the discharge- it was pure dumb luck that I saw it when I did. What if it had been a closed Pyo? What if, what if, what if????
The thought of losing Caterina to a Pyo brought me to my knees. I could not go through that again with Toni and Drift.
With females it seems like a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. It's not a decision to make lightly, at all.
I had Thor neutered at 6 months because he was being raised with 3 young kids; with lots of coming and going, life being what it is......someone was bound to leave a door open when the dog was out of his crate.
I'd like to see further studies across other breeds but this would give me pause in making that choice quite as easily. Though at 13, I think he's good.
Sheesh. Just when I think I have it all figured out.
A FB friend has recently posted about getting options with spaying one of their dogs. One option being looked into was pretty much just a hysterectomy. Ovaries would be left intact thereby leaving the hormones. Although the dog would still cycle, the risk of pyo would go away (as long as it was a COMPLETE removal with no stump left) and you would no longer need to deal with the mess of the heat cycle.
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