Sentences with phrase «intact golden retriever»
My intact golden retriever male has been attacked twice by neutered male dogs.
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A study on Golden Retrievers found that male dogs who were neutered before 12 months of age had double the risk of hip dysplasia than their intact counterparts (Torres de la Riva G, Hart BL, Farver TB, Oberbauer AM, Messam LLM, et al. (2013) Neutering Dogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievers)
An examination of health records of 759 Golden Retrievers by researchers with the University of California - Davis discovered significantly higher incidents of hip dysplasia, cranial cruciate ligament tears, lymphosarcomas, hemangiosarcomas, and mast cell tumors among neutered dogs, compared with sexually intact dogs.
Percentages and number of cases over the total sample size for each neutering status group; intact and neutered early or late for male Golden Retrievers (1 — 8 years old) diagnosed with hip dysplasia (HD), cranial cruciate ligament tear (CCL), lymphosarcoma (LSA), hemangiosarcoma (HSA), and / or mast cell tumor (MCT) at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital of the University of California, Davis, from 2000 — 2009.
PLoS One Feb 2013) in which the authors examined the incidence of several diseases in castrated versus intact male Golden Retrievers.
Male Golden Retrievers castrated before 12 months of age were 3 times more likely to develop lymphoma, a common lymph node cancer, as compared to intact males or males castrated after 12 months of age.
The subjects included were gonadally intact and neutered female and male Labrador Retrievers and Golden Retrievers, from 1 through 8 years of age and admitted to the hospital between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2012, for 13 years of data.
In male and female Golden Retrievers, with the same 5 percent rate of joint disorders in intact dogs, neutering at < 6 mo. increased the incidence of a joint disorder to 4 — 5 times that of intact dogs.
In contrast, in female Golden Retrievers, with the same 3 percent rate of one or more cancers in intact females, neutering at all periods through 8 years of age increased the rate of at least one of the cancers by 3 — 4 times.
With regard to the occurrence of one or more joint disorders, in Golden Retrievers, neutering at < 6 mo. resulted in an incidence of 27 percent in males and 20 percent in females, 4 — 5 times the 5 percent level for intact males and females.
We just brought home a 10 week old standard poodle male to our 3yo intact female golden retriever (soon to be spayed!).