Sentences with phrase «about intact dogs»

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For dogs, the comparable age for keeping the ovaries intact, at least for large breeds like rottweilers, is about 6 or 7 years.

Obviously, this article only talks about intact male and female dogs; if you have neutered or spayed your dog, you can start reading any other article but this one.

Perhaps it is time to re-think our preconceived notions about who should and shouldn't possess intact dogs!

If you own an intact male or an intact female, there are chances love is in the air and your dog refuses food because he or she has better things to think about.

The dog that strangled was a Staffordshire Terrier / Lab cross about 4 years old intact male...

In an intact dog, these heat periods (estrus) result in about 2 - 3 weeks of vaginal bleeding and discharge approximately every 6 months.

Determining Optimal Age for Gonadectomy in Dogs and Cats» Root - Kustritz Good synopsis of current studies, and discussion about how to decide the «neuter - or - keep - intact» dilemma.

The breeding permits and high intact - dog license fees required by these laws and the accompanying number limits and other requirements often drive good breeders away, leaving puppy buyers with few options for finding well - bred healthy pets and robbing a community of a broad and deep body of knowledge about dog care and training.

(All responsible breeders carefully place their dogs in new homes, but breeders of rare breeds are even more finicky about where their pups go because they are guardians of a small gene pool and need to make sure that all breedable dogs are kept intact and that buyers understand the consequences of owning a pet that is also the repository of genes from that limited pool.)

In a world where most dogs and cats were intact and a high percentage of them were free - roaming, shelter killing was about the only means that communities had to contain pet population.

An intact male dog will do just about anything to discover a mate, which includes finding any means necessary to escape your home.

An intact male dog between 10 and 12 months of age has about five times the testosterone level he will have in his final adult intensity, if he is not neutered.

I think both can be factors, but my bet is that breeding has more to do with it (I know folks w / intact dogs that have had a shorter life span too - flipside of the coin), but I am curious about any / all factors that might «tip the scale».

In fact, prostatitis occurs in about three out of four intact male dogs over 6 years of age.

Female dogs left intact have about a 50 % chance of developing mammary cancer.

Show dogs have to remain intact so be prepared to deal with that in whatever gender you choose to have and be responsible about it.

Did you know that just one intact female dog and her offspring can produce up to 67,000 puppies and one intact female cat along with her offspring can produce about 420,000 kittens in seven years?

Unless you're breeding your dogs or have some weird hangup about keeping your dog intact for nefarious reasons, you get your dog neutered.

According to Peter Marsh, on average, each intact dog cared for by animal control costs taxpayers about $ 35 in animal - control expenses, compared to about $ 12 for a sterilized dog.