What happens to a male dog when it gets neutered?
“Cid Young”s answer is the only one so far worth your while reading. The dog is anaesthetised. A cut is made in his scrotum. One at a time a testicle is pulled out, the tube & veins sealed then the testicle cut off. The incision in the scrotum is stitched. When the dog has recovered from the anaesthetic the owner collects him – oops, he’s now an “it” – and takes him home. He carries on exactly as he did before the op, but once any residual semen in his tubes dies he can no longer fertilise an ovum. In a rare case he will worry at the stitches and have to be put into an Elizabethan collar (often made from a plastic bucket and an old dog collar) so that can’t reach the stitches, What OTHER effects/consequences there might be depend very much on the age at which he was neutered. The hormones generated by the testes ARE part of the maturing process, and involved in controlling how long various bones continue to grow longer, and how quickly. Rescue groups, flooded by no-longer-wanted pups a
Well, of course they can’t breed. Those organs are removed. Not all male behavious are gone. Dogs that are spayed/neautered are much better off when their older, and at old age they don’t need to be breeding anyway. Our puppy doesn’t lift his leg because he was neutered right away when he was of age. He used to mount and stuff, but with training he doesn’t do that. He should be better off in ten years. Our female dog got spayed a few years ago, late in age but nessecary as we had her brother over and he was trying to breed her. She’s better off than him, who’s suffering. My uncle probably isn’t going to get him neutered, though he should. For Thanksgiving my uncle, owner of my dog’s brother, was making fun of our puppy because he was neutered. It was hurting his feelings, and they kept making a big deal of it, because the dog kept trying to figure out what our puppy was, male or female.
