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Ive always been under the belief if the "bits" dont cause a problem, dont remove them. This includes horses and dogs.

I have a mini stallion who has bred but may not always in the future. He will be keeping his bits no matter what. The reason being he lives exactly like a "normal" horse does, grazes with my shetland gelding ( who IS the boss, there is no doubt about that! ) and grazes perfectly happily next to the mares field. He is not treated any way different than if he would be as a gelding.

Now Alf is an Entire dog. I have posted earlier about him having a prostrate problem and the vet has commented on that if they keep reoccuring he may have to be castrated. I have no problems with that if its for the good of his health. however if he doesnt keep getting the infections he will be staying entire. I dont intend to breed from him. He is not a dominant dog and his bits have never caused me any problems with other dogs what so ever.

Now the point of my thread is not to have a debate on whether a dog should be castrated or not, or "it stops unwanted pregnacies etc..." or it stops agression, BUT i wondered whether there was any info about the risks/health issues are keeping an entire dog???

For instance is there any evidence out there that proves an entire dog is more succeptabe to cancer etc or other diseases??
 
As mentioned, we had it done because he was getting recurrent infections but probably would have had it done anyway as he was not great with other dogs.

The vet people among us on here will say castration reduces the likelihood of certain cancers.

He has had one small infection since but nothing compared to the mass of tissue that was floating around in his bladder, bits of which he was passing :o

Also we were not breeding from him, I love him but there is very little about him I would want passed on, apart from a few personality traits, but that is not reason enough to breed, IMO

I know it is not what you asked for :p but if the dog isn't for breeding, it should be castrated as accidents can and do happen. Plus my fella is testament to the fact that they do not all suddenly turn obese and stupid upon neutering :p
 
You could try doing a search on google scholar, sciencedirect or similar :) I'm sure if you search canine prostate or canine castration etc. there should be plenty of results from veterinary journals and the like.
 
Harley hasn't been snipped. when I bought him I had every intention. When I took him to the vets for his vaccine course I asked the vet when I should bring him back to be done and he just asked me why I wanted him done.... He is of the opinion unless you have a reason to do it (medical prob, agression, wandering) then leave them alone. He also said that if it is behavioural problem he prefers to give them a hormone jab to see if it is going to have the desired effect rather than just whipping them off and hoping it will cure the problem.

I was surprised and had to go home and think about it. But at the moment Harley hasn't been done. He's 15 months now. He does bark at people, but it sopey as anything when they say hello. I have thought about having the jab to see if it would help, but tbh I have the barking under control, so not concerned.
 
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