In this world, many people say they love pets, but in fact they love them blindly. For example, when dogs are sterilized, many people think that this is abusing them and depriving them of their reproductive rights. In fact, nothing is absolutely right or wrong, and everything has two sides. Let’s first learn about some of the benefits of neutering your dog!

1. Reduce the number of unnecessary dogs and dogs that no one needs, thereby reducing the number of stray dogs and preventing dogs from suffering a tragic fate.

2. Spaying or neutering your dog can make your dog live a healthier life and reduce the chance of getting sick. Studies have shown that sterilization can reduce the chance of female dogs suffering from uterine, ovarian and breast cancers, especially when the female animal has just become sexually mature and has not yet given birth. The effect is more obvious. Neutering surgery can reduce the chance of testicular cancer in male animals and reduce the incidence of prostate disease.

3. Spaying or neutering your dog can extend your dog’s life. This is because constant and excessive reproductive activities will accelerate the aging of body organs and shorten the life span of dogs.

4. Neutering a dog can change the dog's personality, reduce or completely change the dog's habits of wandering, fighting, peeing everywhere, and howling, thereby greatly reducing the chance of loss or injury, and being infected with diseases, and at the same time making the dog Become more affectionate, willing to be with others, and have a close relationship with the owner, docile, and trainable.

5. Because sterilization surgery changes the personality of dogs, they eliminate some bad habits that annoy their owners, such as peeing everywhere, wandering outside, barking uneasily, etc., and become well-behaved, docile and lovable, and more like to interact with dogs. The mutual companionship of people thus reduces the possibility of dogs being abandoned by their owners.

7. Dogs may run around because they are in heat. After being sterilized, dogs will be easier to control, have a gentler temperament, and will not be so interested in other dogs. Therefore, dogs can be completely sterilized after being neutered. Scattered.

8. You can also improve your quality of life, because after the dog gives birth, you will spend more time taking care of the puppies, so it is better to treat a neutered dog as usual.

9. Dogs giving birth will also make the home dirty, especially for those owners with mysophobia, which will definitely be even more intolerable.

10. After birth control, the owner can better train the dog, which will make more people love it, which will also extend the life of the dog. If it is not under birth control, the owner will lose patience and be difficult to manage. , it is impossible to keep a dog for a long time.

General dog owners’ excuses for not neutering their dogs

1. You think your pet is very well-behaved or has a good bloodline, and you want it to preserve its good bloodline - in fact, it is an animal that is valued by its owner and is pampered in every possible way.All animals, regardless of bloodline, are kind-hearted children. On the contrary, if the offspring of a famous champion family are not well cared for, they will also breed rebellious people who are disliked by everyone. What's more, genius parents can also give birth to idiot sons, and genetic inheritance may not always be as expected.

2. Male dogs will not give birth to puppies, so there is no need for sterilization - the trouble caused by male hormones will not be less than the trouble of childbirth. Male dogs will continue to look for someone to mate with and problems will arise. For example, they get jealous and fight with other male dogs, they are prone to car accidents or injuries when staying on the road, they attack other weak animals when they are emotionally unstable, etc. If you keep an impulsive male dog in the house, he may destroy furniture or bite people. In addition, barking or losing his temper are common symptoms of sexual frustration. Sexual urges can turn a cute dog into a nasty one.

3. I think it is enough to take good care of the pet when it is in estrus, and there is no need to sterilize it - a female dog will go into estrus twice a year after becoming sexually mature, and each time lasts for about 3 weeks. This estrus phenomenon lasts for about 10 years without sterilization. Not only are female dogs dirtying the environment when they are in heat, but there are often groups of male dogs outside the door, and they can get pregnant if they accidentally sneak out. Leaving aside the problem of pregnancy, female dogs have various strange phenomena of false pregnancy after menstruation, and problems of pyometra and breast tumors in old age. These problems are all problems that can be completely avoided after birth control surgery.

4. Think sterilization is unnatural - Yes. But keeping them as pets is just as unnatural. For example: teaching a dog to sit down, telling a cat to stay at home and not allowed to go out, or artificially breeding special breeds, etc. These are also unnatural things.

5. Want to make money by breeding puppies - It costs a lot to raise pets, such as breeding fees, medical expenses for dystocia, etc. In addition, puppies are difficult to care for and may die young. Even if they have gone through a lot of hard work to raise them until they are big enough to be sold for money, most people don’t have the channels to raise them until they can no longer be sold. This is the reason why many livestock owners have too many pets. Unless you are engaged in breeding, I advise you not to use your brain to make money from small animals. Generally, you will lose more than you make.

6. Believe that sterilization will make animals fat - it is not the sterilization surgery that makes animals obese. The main cause of obesity is overfeeding and lack of exercise by livestock owners. However, neutered animals are generally lazy to move around. It is recommended to feed them less food than before and take them for more exercise. For example, guide dogs must be neutered during formal training, but none have ever been overweight.

7. Worry about big changes in temperament after sterilization - female animals will not change at all, while male animals will have some good changes, such as becoming docile.

8. Worry about the dangers of the anesthesia process or postoperative infection - this is a routine minor surgery, performed by doctors with professional surgical training and performed under complete anesthesia. The animals will not feel pain and the wounds are not large. The animal will fully recover in 2-3 days and the damage will not be serious.

9. SomeoneThinking that it is better for female animals to have one child is just nonsense. There is no reasonable reason why it is better for animals to have one child. Besides, pregnancy and childbirth involve unnecessary risks, so why is it better to have one child?

10. The pet is pregnant and thinks the operation is inhumane or unsafe - whether sterilization during pregnancy is humane or not is the same as whether abortion is humane or not. It all depends on people's ideas and there is no final conclusion. Some veterinarians are also reluctant to perform this surgery. But I personally think that rather than leaving the animals unable to be taken care of after birth and letting these little animals become a neglected group or possibly become stray animals, it is better to choose surgery which is more humane. This kind of surgery only requires the doctor to be very careful when tying blood vessels to prevent bleeding. It is not particularly unsafe, so there is no need to panic.

11. There are some animal conditions that owners think are not suitable for surgery, such as those that are too young, too old, too fat, frail or in heat - current medical research believes that early neutering of dogs does not cause hormonal imbalances, affect bone development, or easily Formation of skin disease, therefore youth is not a reason for inoperability. Older, frail or obese animals require special attention during anesthesia, but surgery is not impossible. Animals in heat are more likely to bleed, but the ovarian ligaments are loose and the operation is relatively easy, so there is no saying that surgery cannot be performed.

12. Some people think that male animals will lose their virility after sterilization, dogs will no longer guard the door, and cats will no longer hunt mice. This is nonsense. These qualities of animals are innate and are used by people. Male dogs have their territorial nature, so they will guard the door; cats regard mice as prey, so they will hunt mice. It has nothing to do with sterilization or not. Many working dogs in Europe and the United States have been neutered, which does not affect their functions.

Common diseases of unneutered animals:

1. Pyometra: It mostly occurs in old dogs over 7 years old, and the incidence rate in unneutered elderly female dogs is quite high. When this disease first occurs, there are often only symptoms of frequent thirst and frequent urination. If it is not an open type with a large amount of secretions, the owner will not pay much attention. If it is delayed for a long time, the body tissues will be damaged due to the absorption of bacterial endotoxins, and in severe cases, it may lead to kidney failure, which cannot be treated. Atretic pyometra that cannot drain out will cause peritonitis when the uterus ruptures due to collision or excess pus, which can quickly lead to death. In addition, the risk of anesthesia for old and sick dogs is high, and the cost of surgery and postoperative care is much higher than that of normal sterilization. Therefore, animals that are not intended to be bred are best sterilized as soon as possible.

2. Endometritis: Due to hormonal factors after estrus, the uterus is prone to infection. A small amount of secretion can be seen clinically, which can be controlled with medication. However, animals with this type of system can easily become cases of pyometra infection. Surgical removal is a once and for all solution. Method.

3. Breast tumors: A common disease in older animals that have not been neutered. About 50% of dogs are malignant tumors. onceIt occurs, and the chance of recurrence after resection is quite high. According to literature reports, the cause of this disease is related to hormones, and animals neutered before one year old have almost no chance of it.

4. Ovarian cysts: Animals will have persistent estrus, and some animals will have vaginal hyperplasia. Surgery to remove the ovaries can solve the problem.

5. Sexually transmitted diseases: Most are infected through mating. Sexual organ infection caused by mating, oral infection caused by licking diseased tissue, skin infection caused by wound contact, nasal infection caused by inhalation of tissue, and even brought into the abdominal cavity by surgical contamination... The animals have a bloody stench and are extremely uncomfortable.

6. Prostate enlargement: A common disease in elderly male dogs, manifested by abdominal pain, difficulty urinating, and even hematuria. The treatment is to neuter to block male hormones and allow the glands to shrink naturally. Prevent the occurrence of this disease and eliminate the possibility of prostate tumors.

7. False pregnancy: Some female dogs will lactate and make nests after going into estrus, and they seem to be pregnant and about to give birth. This is a pathological reaction of hormonal abnormalities. If it happens frequently, only sterilization can prevent it.

8. Testicular tumors: When unneutered male animals with cryptorchidism age, the testicles that have not descended into the scrotum often turn into tumor tissue, and cryptorchidism itself is hereditary, so it is recommended that such animals be sterilized.

Sterilization methods and precautions

1. Male animals: The testicles are removed, which is called castration surgery

2. Female animals: Complete removal of the uterus and ovaries (OHE)

3. Appropriate time for sterilization: But as long as the immunity is complete and the body is fine, the operation can be performed.

4. If you have already decided, please contact a reliable animal hospital in advance;

5. Arrange a time to perform the surgery on your pet when your work is not stressful and you have time to take care of it after the operation;

6. Fasting of food and water for 6-8 hours before surgery is required to avoid foreign matter choking into the respiratory tract during or after vomiting;

7. Don’t be eager to let him eat after surgery. Gastrointestinal motility is slow after anesthesia, and symptoms of gastroenteritis may occur if he is eager to eat;

8. After surgery, you should limit excessively strenuous exercise, climbing stairs, and overeating. Do not take a bath until the wound is completely healed (which takes about 10-14 days).

9. During the wound healing process, if you find blood oozing out of the wound, it may be that the wound has collapsed and you should go to the hospital for follow-up consultation.

Neutering, for some male dogs, will indeed improve their temperament. Removal of the testicles will cause the androgen in his body to drop, making him less competitive and more obedient. It is probably the process of becoming a male, and the male characteristics will be obvious.weaken. However, the probability that a male dog will be well-behaved after being neutered is not 100%. Some dogs will be more concerned about missing something from their body, so they will hate their owners and attack them.

Everything mentioned above has two sides. Please decide whether to sterilize your dog based on the actual situation. Not all dogs are suitable for neutering. Before neutering, you should take the dog to check whether it is suitable for neutering surgery.