Sentences with phrase «percent of male dogs»

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While a complex set of circumstances are involved when a person is killed by dogs, approximately 92 percent of fatal dog attacks involve male dogs, 94 percent of which are not neutered at the time of the attack.

Intact male dogs are involved in 76 percent of cases and importantly, 25 percent of cases involve dogs that are kept on chains.

Pitbulls are the dog of choice for irresponsible breeders, dog - fighters, people who want a tough - looking dog to tie up in their yard and those who refuse to have their male dogs fixed because they think those big, swinging balls makes them look tough by proxy (86 percent of fatal canine attacks involve an unneutered male, according to the American Humane Society).

Neutering male dogs successfully eliminates or greatly reduces household urine marking in 50 to 60 percent of cases.

About 70 percent of dogs with Addison's are female, although in some breeds, including Standard Poodles and Bearded Collies, males and females are equally affected.

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).

In both breeds the occurrence of one more cancers in intact dogs ranged from 3 to 5 percent, except for Golden Retriever males where the level in intact dogs was 11 percent.

The only behavioral changes involve some of the less desirable male habits such as marking, mounting and inter-male aggression, which are reduced or eliminated in 50 to 60 percent of dogs as a result of neutering.

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.

Research indicates that 80 percent of dogs hit by cars are unaltered males.

(Over 80 percent of unneutered male dogs develop some form of prostate disease.)

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association Task Force on Canine Aggression and Human - Canine Interactions, 70 to 76 percent of reported dog bite incidents are caused by intact males.

According to Windmill Animal Hospital, it is estimated that by the age of 5, an intact male dog will have a 75 percent chance of developing an enlarged prostate gland; whereas, by the age of 7, the chances dramatically increase to over 90 percent!