Bacterial prostatitis is a common prostate disease in
sexually intact male dogs and may be seen in intact male cats.
Impact of the study: Results suggest that the presence of circulating testosterone in aging
sexually intact male dogs may slow the progression of cognitive impairment, at least among dogs that already have signs of mild impairment.
Not exact matches
The disease rates for all five diseases were significantly higher in both
males and females that were neutered either early or late, compared with that of
sexually intact dogs.
In
sexually intact dogs, 8.5 % females were in season, and 16.5 % of
males had a bitch in season nearby during the week prior to the GDV.
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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.»
Male and female pups from 5 litters were randomly allotted to 3 groups: group I, neuter at 7 weeks (n = 14); group II, neuter at 7 months (n = 8); and group III,
sexually intact dogs (n = 10).
However, in this cohort, there was no statistically significant difference in the overall cancer incidence rate in
male or female
dogs that underwent early gonadectomy before 1 year of age compared with
sexually intact dogs (data not shown).
Gonadectomized female and
male dogs lived longer than
sexually intact dogs in this cohort (Table 1) ⇓ and in a previous study (32), which might be expected to contribute to a higher overall cancer incidence associated with gonadectomy.
There were 400
sexually intact males, 222 neutered
males, 451
sexually intact females, 351 spayed females, and 17
dogs for which sex was not reported.