Disadvantages of neutering dogs

Disadvantages of neutering dogs:

1. Spaying triples the chances of a dog becoming obese. Overweight people are prone to arthritis, heart disease, pancreatitis, and diabetes. After the dog is neutered, if the owner continues to feed the same amount of food as before the neutering, the dog will easily gain weight. This is because a neutered dog's hormonal metabolism changes so that it doesn't need as much food.

2. Sterilization increases the risk of hemangioma. Hemangiomas typically appear on the heart and spleen. Spayed dogs were twice as likely to develop splenic hemangiomas and four times more likely to develop cardiac hemangiomas than non-neutered dogs.

3. Sterilization triples the risk of developing hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism can cause obesity, lethargy, and hair loss, but these symptoms can be controlled with daily thyroid medication.

Benefits of neutering dogs:

1. If the dog is sterilized before two and a half years old, it can significantly reduce the chances of suffering from mammary gland tumors, uterine tumors, cervical tumors and breast tumors, and it can also avoid excessive fertility that will accelerate the aging of body organs.

2. Sterilization can dilute the dog's sense of territory and improve its aggressiveness.

3. Spaying can reduce the risk of being attacked by other male dogs. Even if your dog is naturally docile and good-tempered, an intact female dog is more likely to be targeted by other male dogs.

4. Spaying can help divert a dog's attention from other dogs to its owner. Unneutered dogs spend a lot of energy paying attention to other dogs. Sterilization combined with proper training can greatly improve this point, allowing the dog to focus more on the owner, and the obedience will naturally be fine.

5. Spaying can reduce mating behavior. The mating behavior here does not only refer to real mating, but also refers to dogs to toys. Spaying combined with owner education can reduce this indecent behavior to a minimum.