Sentences with phrase «aggressive than intact males»

While looking at the correlation between the level of care provided by cat caregivers and the economic status of the area in which the cats lived, the authors observed that neutered male cats were less aggressive than intact males.

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Intact males are more aggressive to other dogs than neutered males.

You're right that there is evidence in multiple species to suggest that testosterone can enhance existing aggressive behavior, at least in some cases — meaning we might expect an intact male dog to have a faster or more intense aggressive reaction to a given situation than a neutered one, all things being equal.

For example, intact males constitute 80 percent of all dogs presented to veterinary behaviorists for what formerly has been described as dominance aggression, are involved in 70 to 76 percent of reported dog bite incidents, and are 2.6 times more likely to bite than neutered dogs, while unspayed females «attract free - roaming males, which increases bite risk to people through increased exposure to unfamiliar dogs,» and «contribute to the population of unwanted» and potentially aggressive dogs (Gershman et al., 1993; Sacks et al., 2000; AVMA, 2001).