| Good reasons for neutering your male Labrador Retriever. What age your Labrador Retriever should be for neutering. Safety guidelines your vet should follow for safe neutering. |
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| Neutering or castrating male dogs helps prevent behavior problems such as marking, dog aggression, distress around females in heat, distractibility, and dominance. |
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| Neutering male dogs lowers their testosterone levels, which makes them more willing to listen to you and less likely to challenge your authority. |
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| Neutering male dogs protects them from health problems such as tumors. |
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Neutering Your Male Labrador Retriever
| Good reasons to neuter your male Labrador Retriever |
You can call it castration or neutering. Both terms refer to the removal of the testicles, so your dog can't breed or sire puppies. Most people tend to say neutering because it doesn't sound so graphic!
Neutering helps prevents behavioral problems.
- Marking. Unneutered Labrador Retrievers spray their urine on vertical objects so that other males can smell it -- it's a way of marking territory. Marking can become an obsession with some unneutered males, who will tow you toward every fire hydrant and telephone pole.
| Some unneutered males will even mark inside your house. |
- Fighting. Unneutered Labrador Retrievers are more likely to pick fights with other unneutered males. Even if your OWN male isn't inclined to do this, dog aggression is still a potential problem because an unneutered Lab is more likely to be attacked by other males because he's a potential rival.
- Sexual arousal. The signs of sexual arousal can be embarrassing in mixed company. Unneutered males often lick their genitals and hump other dogs, pillows, stuffed animals, and sometimes people's ankles.
- Distractibility. The eyeballs of unneutered males tend to rove up and down the street looking for females or potential male rivals -- rather than focusing on YOU.
- Distress around females in heat. Females in heat give off chemical pheromones that can be scented from a mile away. Unneutered males can become extremely agitated - whining, drooling, pacing, sometimes escaping their house or yard.
- Dominance. Unneutered Labrador Retrievers are more likely to challenge you because their increased testosterone goads them into resisting and challenging authority.
Neutering helps prevent health problems.
Neutering offers 100% protection against testicular tumors and partial protection against prostate disease and perianal tumors, both of which are stimulated by testosterone.
| If your male has retained one or both testicles up inside his body, neutering is essential because a retained testicle is very likely to develop a tumor unless removed. |
Neutering often means lower license tag fees.
In many communities, license tag fees are lower for neutered males.
| So there are many good reasons for neutering your male Labrador Retriever. |
BUT...
there are some RISKS, as well.
Before you neuter your male,
there are some things you need to know.
| Before you neuter your male, you need to know... |
- The DISadvantages of neutering. Yes, there are a couple.
- The RIGHT age your Labrador Retriever should be for neutering.
| Be careful here! The RIGHT age for neutering is NOT the age that many vets and breeders will tell you. Neutering at the WRONG age is a mistake. |
- FIVE safety precautions your vet should take (but often doesn't!) for maximum safety during neutering.
| Sadly, dogs can and do die while being neutered because their owner didn't know enough to ask for these specific safety precautions. |
| I answer all of these questions about safe neutering in... |
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