Male dogs are about six times more likely to
bite than female dogs, and male dogs that have not been «fixed» are three times more likely to bite than neutered males.
Male dogs are considerably more likely to be
infected than female dogs and dogs that are housed outside are more likely to be infected than dogs sleeping inside the home.
An oft quoted figure from this study is that male dogs were six times more likely to
bite than female dogs.
Affected dogs aretypically in the 5 to 14 month age range, placing the disease is the class of growth related skenetl disorders, and male dogs are more commonly
affected than female dogs.
The same study also found that there's a gender predisposition, with male dogs being more likely to develop enlarged heart
disease than female dogs.
Veterinary surgical training is particularly needed as currently, surgeons only castrate male,
rather than female dogs.
We know that male Dalmatians are reported as stone formers more often than female Dalmatians but this may be a reflection of the fact that only male dogs have the added stone complication of urethral obstruction, a problem female dogs rarely have to worry about (thus male dogs may be seeing the vet for their stones more
than female dogs do).
Not all male dogs are
bigger than all female dogs of course, but on average the male puppies in a purebred litter will grow slightly taller and heavier than the females in the same litter.
This is easier to do with male
dogs than female dogs but you can usually get a sample with one or two tries.
«It is possibly related to lateral bias — we know that dogs show strong motor preferences, with male dogs using their left paws
more than female dogs, who, by contrast, tend to use their right paws more.»
When breeds were analysed separately, we found statistically significant personality differences only in BT, where tail chasers (n = 31) were shyer (χ21, 50 = 10.31, p = 0.001) compared to the controls (n = 19), and the male dogs were less aggressive towards humans (sex * Aggressiveness / Humans: χ22, 50 = 5.56, p = 0.038)
than the female dogs.