hi all , i admit i have made a mistake neutering my 9 month gsd puppy ( working line).
i did that 3 month ago when she was 6 month old not even knowing that it will effect her hormones and will destroy her defense and protection work.
don't missunderstand me , she is a great female , full of prey/ball drive and she does GREAT in bite work and protection so far.
i see no sign of weaknes whatsoever but i am afraid that what i have done will effect her in the future and she will not be able to show a good protection work.
anyone knows of a schutzhund dog who is doing fine even after neutering ? , am i the only one who did so?.......do i need to have another dog now ? , does she have any potential to do the job with that?
thx so much
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Spaying a bitch is not as detrimental as neutering a male. The difference is testosterone. Work your dog as she is. It is unlikely that you would see any noticable difference and you don't have to worry that she will come into heat right before a trial.
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Neutering is for males and it has more of an effect than Spaying which is what happened to your female. I know of more than 1 male who had to be neutered later in life due to testicle cancer and both of them were not effected. I think neutering a male prior to puberty would be alot rougher on the dog. Alot of people spay their older females at 7-8 years old then go on and compete with them later and do fine, plus alot of good working females have to be spayed for medical reasons at a young age and they still work fine. YOu won't have to sweat the heat cycles and so forth anyway. Derek
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Neutering is for males and it has more of an effect than Spaying which is what happened to your female. Derek
Technically neutering is for either sex, castrating is for dogs, spay, OVH or OHE is for bitches. But that's no longer the common usage- just the medically correct usage. Speuter is redundant for bitches. But when do AR and humaniacs have to make sense?
Now- as far as spaying the bitch- neutering of either sex changes the ratio of hormones. Without the uterus, what the bitch produces elsewhere is a higher ration of "male to female" hormones(both sexes produce both types just the ratios change) than normal. It's the reason why spaying rarely lowers aggressive or dominant behavior in bitches. It stops them from reproducing, but doesn't alter the behavior (and can make it worse). So- it may make her a more assertive dog than she would have been otherwise.
Now, shall I tell you why you can't do an autopsy in dogs? I just had this discussion the other day :-)
thx Derek and Anna , good to hear that she will not be effect by that ( neuturing or spaying....sorry English is my 2nd anyway....lol).....the fact that she might become even more asertive is just amazing as i was sure the exact oposite might be my case....everybody sure that she will be a great high level SCH candidate.....tha again folks...N
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