Sentences with phrase «likely than intact dogs»

A paper on CCL found that, across all breeds, neutered males and females were 2 to 3 times more likely than intact dogs to have this disorder [15].

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For both male and female Rotties spayed or neutered before one year of age, there was a one in four lifetime risk for bone cancer, and the sterilized animals were significantly more likely to develop the disease than intact dogs of the same breed.

In the study, spayed and neutered dogs were also more likely to develop behavior disorders than intact dogs.

However, some male dogs never learn this behavior and neutered dogs are more likely to squat to urinate than intact males.

Dogs who are reproductively intact (unspayed females and unneutered males) are more likely to urine mark than spayed or neutered dDogs who are reproductively intact (unspayed females and unneutered males) are more likely to urine mark than spayed or neutered dogsdogs.

Other findings included that sexually intact dogs from pet stores were three times more likely to be aggressive toward their owners than sexually intact dogs from non-commercial breeders.

Neutered dogs were eight times more likely to suffer from prostate transitional cell carcinoma than intact dogs.

On average, castrated dogs are three times more likely than their intact counterparts to develop some type of prostate cancer.

«Male and female dogs that underwent gonadectomy before 1 year of age had an approximate one in four lifetime risk for bone sarcoma and were significantly more likely to develop bone sarcoma than dogs that were sexually intact.»

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).

Research has shown that dogs over 4 years old that are spayed or neutered are considerably more likely to suffer cruciate tears than dogs that remain sexually intact.

A study utilizing the Veterinary Medical Database of over 40,000 dogs found that neutered males and females were more likely to die of cancer than intact dogs, especially of OSA, LSA and MCT [15].

Intact dogs are seven times more likely to contract the disease than ones which have undergone spaying or ovarihysterectomy (surgical removal of ovaries and uterus) before their first or second heat period.