Every male dog I have had was neutered. They were neutered early on in their lives. All of the males except the first one I had tried to run off. The first one I had behaved perfectly due to training. The female dog I have is two years old. She is not spayed and has been through heat a few times. She has never tried to run off. In the two years I have had her, she stays very close to me unless retrieving something I told her to or if I told her to stay and walked off. When she retrieves, she always comes right back to me when she gets the thing unless told otherwise. Given that all the male dogs except the first one which was the best trained dog I have had so far wanted to run off and were neutered early on and my unspayed female dog never runs off or even attempts to even while in heat, I don't buy that neutering or spaying makes it easier to work with the dog. Part of it is the dogs behavior and personality. The other part of it is training that you do. I don't care if it is neutered, spayed, or neither. Either way, with the right training, you can train it to not run off like how my first dog was. The people who say that neutering and spaying eliminates the dogs want to roam are wrong based off of my experiences at this point. That alone does not stop it. If your dog does it before, it will do it after unless trained otherwise. Many other people I know with dogs who are neutered or spayed have ran off or at least tried once or more.
Someone who lives up the street from me has a dog that has been trained for the army. That dog is male and has not been neutered. That dog never wanders off even when not supervised and responds very well to commands given. I even go past the dog when it is alone in the yard and not tied up with my female dog that is not spayed and the dog completely ignores us and just stays in that yard.
In the times my female dog has been in heat, no male dogs have come around so far. Even the male shepherd that lives up the street a bit who is not neutered never comes around. Keep in mind though, he has had more training than most dogs you will ever meet just like how my first dog had a lot of training and never once tried to run off due to being very well trained.
Keep in mind that I have no veterinary training. I am just talking based off of what I have read which I may be right, partly right, or wrong about. I had no part in any of the studies I have read about and and talking about here. Sure, they say that in male dogs the chance of testicular cancer is eliminated if you neuter which is true, but based off of other things I have read, in at least some breeds of dogs, the chance of testicular cancer is less than a percent and the only reason it reduces the chance of it is because of the part being removed. The same logic holds up to any other body part. If you remove it, the chance of cancer is greatly reduced. There is no chance of cancer since the body part has been removed. So if you want to use that logic for at least those breeds of dogs who are male, why not remove other body parts as well? If you don't want any chance of cancer, you have to get rid of every biological part of the dog. The chance of cancer will be reduced to zero in everything that you remove from the dog's body. I have read that in dogs that are neutered or spayed before they are fully grown end up with their bones growing past where they have should have stopped growing. I have read about how female dogs who are spayed later in life tend to live longer than those spayed earlier on in their life. There are things saying that if you don't neuter or spay, some forms of cancer are increased, but if you do neuter or spay, I have also read that other forms of cancer become more likely to happen, so that argument is a losing battle on both sides. I have read about how neutering and spaying can increase some health issues beyond cancer especially the earlier in life it is done. There is one vet who I came across back when I was looking into it who said not to neuter or spay. Instead, do a procedure that would make it so that the parts remain a part of the dog and they get the hormones needed for proper development, but would make it so that the dog can't reproduce because the dog will be healthier if you do that rather than neutering or spaying. One person was comparing spaying to menopause in people which in some aspects can't be done because people are not dogs and dogs are not people, but if you look at the issues with menopause which is in a since similar to spaying in the since that it is a drop in hormones, you should be able to see how it can be an issue. It is basically instant menopause for the dog when you spay it. One thing to keep in mind with neutering and spaying is that it is in no way a natural thing. It is a man made thing.
All in all, I don't buy into the whole neutering and spaying thing as being a very good thing for dogs overall or that it makes them easier to work with. I think people need to back off of it a bit. Just enjoy your dog and train it well. If you want to neuter or spay, it is between you and the person you got it from and of course the vet who is going to do it, but if someone chooses not to, don't be all weird about it or try to make them feel like bad people. It is their choice. They have their reasons for not doing it. You can do your own research and decide if you want to do it or not. If you don't want to do it, you have to find a place that won't force you to do it if you get a dog from them. Your dog is your dog. My dog is my dog. Everyone else's dogs are their own dogs. Unless you have a legal agreement with the other person that they will neuter or spay the dog, it is not your place to say anything. Just decide if it is right for you and your dog.
From what I have read about dog shows, in at least some dog shows, dogs who are neutered or spayed sometimes are not allowed and/or can be penalized for it. I have not read anything like that about field trial dogs. In either case, choosing not to neuter or spay is very much okay. If you have a good dog their, why wouldn't you want to have the option of allowing it to have pups. Even if they are just working dogs who are not at all involved with show, field trial or whatever else, it is also perfectly fine. Even if it is just a general pet, it is perfectly fine. I am not saying just go out and breed any and every dog. Just that it is fine to choose to not neuter or spay so long as you are responsible.
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