Sentences with phrase «more than intact males»

Almost 10 percent of early - neutered males were diagnosed with lymphosarcoma, which was 3 times more than intact males.

Not exact matches

More and more parents are saying NO to unnecessary routine male infant circumcision and more than 68 % of new parents are opting to take their whole baby home, despite myths about intact babies being more likely to get UTI's and other nonseMore and more parents are saying NO to unnecessary routine male infant circumcision and more than 68 % of new parents are opting to take their whole baby home, despite myths about intact babies being more likely to get UTI's and other nonsemore parents are saying NO to unnecessary routine male infant circumcision and more than 68 % of new parents are opting to take their whole baby home, despite myths about intact babies being more likely to get UTI's and other nonsemore than 68 % of new parents are opting to take their whole baby home, despite myths about intact babies being more likely to get UTI's and other nonsemore likely to get UTI's and other nonsense.

«Larger testes create more sperm, so males with larger testes — but lacking a weapon — may be able to compensate by fertilising more eggs in the few mating opportunities they do achieve than males with intact weapons but smaller testes,» says Joseph.

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.

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

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 dogs.

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Worse, if more than one intact male is in the park, they could start a fight over your female in heat.

Unfixed male cats are more prone to aggression than other cats, and it only takes one intact male to affect the behavior of all the other cats in your house.

Perusal of Figure 1 and Table 4 reveals that HD in earlyneutered males, affecting 10.3 percent, was more than double the proportion of intact males with the isorder, which was 5.1 percent, a significant difference (K - M: p, 0.01).

In the Havanese, many people find intact males easier to live with than intact females as the males are generally more easygoing, mellow and laid back as well as gentler, calmer, and more patient than their intact female counterparts.

Intact females are generally more moody and emotional than the males, and also more dominant and demanding of time and attention but they can also be quick - witted and sassy with a quirky sense of humour which some individuals find very endearing.

Though many people think that sexual behaviour is exclusively male domain, in reality, intact females often mount and mark much more than the males do.

Multivariable analysis indicated that age, sex, health status, and cat lifestyle and source were significantly associated with risk of seropositivity, with adults more likely to be seropositive than juveniles (adjusted odds ratios [ORs], 2.5 and 2.05 for FeLV and FIV seropositivity, respectively), sexually intact adult males more likely to be seropositive than sexually intact adult females (adjusted ORs, 2.4 and 4.66), and outdoor cats that were sick at the time of testing more likely to be seropositive than healthy indoor cats (adjusted ORs, 8.89 and 11.3).

Intact males are much more likely to fight in this way than are neutered males.

Both species are also territorial, with intact males being much more so than females.

All groups reported more intact females (53.4 %) than intact males (44.3 %); only 2.3 % of the cats were found to be previously sterilized.

«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.»

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.

• Benign prostatic hypertrophy / hyperplasia (a non-cancerous, enlarged prostate) occurs in more than 50 % of intact male dogs, with incidence increasing with age.

Diabetes in puppies hardly exists - diabetes rarely occurs in dogs younger than one year of age, and it is more common in females and neutered males than in intact males.

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).

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].

At neuter ages < 6 mo. and 6 — 11 mo. the occurrence of one or more cancers was 15 — 17 percent, but not significantly different than intact males.

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].

Perusal of Figure 1 and Table 4 reveals that HD in early - neutered males, affecting 10.3 percent, was more than double the proportion of intact males with the disorder, which was 5.1 percent, a significant difference (K - M: p < 0.01).

The study also found that males whose parents had divorced were 25 per cent more likely to continue smoking than males from intact families.

They also appeared to have healthier narcissism than did adolescents from single - parent families without Big Brothers, but were more anxious when relating to male teachers than were adolescents from intact families.