Sentences with phrase «neutered than intact dogs»

For cancers other than those three, the incidence of cancers included in the study were higher for neutered than intact dogs.

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As many dog and cat owners can attest, neutered male animals often live longer than their intact counterparts.

Dogs that are spayed or neutered before six months of age ordinarily live longer than dogs that are kept intDogs that are spayed or neutered before six months of age ordinarily live longer than dogs that are kept intdogs that are kept intact.

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.

An ill - mannered intact male dog can be a chore to deal with day in and day out, but common sense dictates that neutering and training are a better course than surrendering the dog at the shelter because he is difficult.

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

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

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 Retrievdogs 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 RetrievDogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievers)

It might also be helpful for studies regarding joint diseases to evaluate whether or not there is a correlation between activity levels in neutered and intact dogs; i.e. do more neutered dogs participate in dog sports such as agility and flyball than intact dogs, increasing the occurrence of joint disease?

Neutered dogs often are better behaved than their intact counterparts.

A retrospective study of cardiac tumors in dogs showed that there was a 5 times greater risk of hemangiosarcoma, one of the three most common cancers in dogs, in spayed bitches than intact bitches and a 2.4 times greater risk of hemangiosarcoma in neutered dogs as compared to intact males.

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

Both studies found that neutered male dogs have a four times higher risk of prostate cancer than intact dogs.

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.

Neutered dogs tend to live longer than intact dogs.

Spayed and neutered dogs were at less risk for early and congenital conditions (aortic stenosis, early onset cataracts, mitral valve disease, patent ductus arteriosus, portosystemic shunt, and ventricular septal defect) than intact dogs.

For all the conditions assessed, the congenital conditions of aortic stenosis, PDA, and ventral septal defect were the only conditions in which intact dogs exhibited a greater prevalence than neutered dogs.

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

Their data showed that neutered dogs were more aggressive, fearful, excitable and less trainable than intact dogs 4.

Two studies with large numbers of pets (70,000 in one study and 200,000 in another) show that spayed and neutered dogs and cats live significantly longer than intact pets.

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.

A study that evaluated boldness in dogs found that intact dogs of both sexes and multiple breeds are more «bold» than neutered dogs [80] which may be associated with exploratory and wandering behavior.

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).

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.

Sexually mature, intact dogs may face a greater risk of parvo than their neutered counterparts because un-neutered dogs tend to roam, increasing their exposure to infectious agents.

Growth plate closure was delayed (group I vs group III; P less than 0.000001; group II vs group III, P less than 0.000001) in all neutered dogs, as compared with sexually intact dogs.

All neutered dogs were judged to be more active (group I, P less than 0.004) than sexually 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].

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].

* Unfortunately, neutering neither prevents nor cures dominance aggression, but is recommended as part of a treatment program since intact dogs are believed to respond more quickly when provoked, react more intensely, and behave aggressively for longer periods of time than their neutered counterparts.

All dogs older than six months and cats more than five months old must be micro-chipped and spayed / neutered unless owners pay an annual fee of $ 150 for an unaltered pet and obtain an intact companion animal permit.

Neutered dogs live longer than their intact counterparts.

Laura J. Sanborn, MS of Rutgers University, has reviewed extensive veterinary literature on the topic and has provided sufficient proof to make leaving a dog intact appear more beneficial than actual neutering.

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