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Spaying and Neutering Dog
If you have no plans of breeding your dog, you must consider spaying/ neutering it.
A spay surgery is performed on female dogs in which the reproductive tract - including the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and uterus – is removed. Female dogs can be spayed when in heat or pregnant.
Neutering refers to the surgical castration of a male dog in which both testicles are removed.
The best way to decide when to spay/neuter your dog is to consult with your veterinarian.
In general, it is safe to alter dogs as early as eight weeks of age. Spaying aged dogs is also possible, but they pose certain health problems. So, the earlier, the better for you and your dog.
Why spaying/neutering is beneficial?
For the dog:
- Spaying and neutering helps dogs live longer, healthier lives.
- Spaying and neutering can eliminate or reduce the incidence of a number of health problems that can be very difficult or expensive to treat.
- In female dogs, spaying eliminates the possibility of uterine or ovarian cancer and greatly reduces the incidence of mammary tumours, particularly when your dog is spayed before her first estrous (heat) cycle. All these problems are not only fatal but also expensive to treat.
- Neutering eliminates testicular cancer and decreases the incidence of prostate disease in male dogs.
- it also reduces problems with territorial and sexual aggression, inappropriate urination (spraying) and other undesirable male behaviours.
- Males neutered early in life tend to be less aggressive and less distracted. An unspayed female with a litter can be very aggressive, even to family members.
- Unspayed dogs can give rise to dog overpopulation problem, all unwanted and creating a public nuisance.
- It permanently eliminates great physical pain and stress in female dogs, including complications from a caeserian delivery of pups.
How beneficial to humans?
- Spaying makes dogs more affectionate and lovable pets.
- Spaying a female dog eliminates her heat cycle, and thereby does not attract unwanted males.
- Unsterilized animals often exhibit more behaviour and temperamental problems than those who have been spayed or neutered, and you are the one who has to bear it all.
- Spaying and neutering make dogs less likely to bite.
- Your neutered pet dog is less probable to run away, or get into territorial or sex related fights.
- You would definitely not like to bear the expenses of an unwanted litter, leave alone other problems.
Spaying and neutering greatly increases the lifespan of your dog and increases the quality of its life as well!
Your dog can compete in almost all activities even if spayed or neutered: training, playing, agility, herding, guarding. You along with your pet dog will enjoy a peaceful and happier life .