Neutering Dogs Too Young?

[xParisx]

I think it's about 6 months here. Im nout really sure. x

[wolfsoul]

Here the dog or cat can be spayed/neutered as early as 9 weeks (as long as the testicles have dropped). It's alot easier on the dog's body because puppies heal alot faster. There are quite a few other benefits as well.

My vet doesn't like to neuter/spay large breed dogs less than a year. She realises that this increases the chances of certain cancers, but neutering beforehand increases the risk of bone cancer by even more. Alot of giant breed owners are starting to realise this, so it is becoming more common to wait until your large or giant breed is a year before spaying and neutering.

[AllAmericanPUP]

lots of shelters and rescues spay/neuter puppies and kittens as earlier as 8 weeks, that way they know the dog/cat will never reproduce puppies, because even with the best screening a dog/cat can still wind up into the hands of a bad person who doesnt get the dog fixed at 6 months and that dog/cat ends up having puppies/kittens.

[ParNone]

I do not believe in neutering before 6 months. Think of how important hormones are to a human's growth through puberty. Why would it be any different for a dog? I don't see what the major rush is, to do something that may be detrimental to my dog. I've waited to 6 months for all 4 of mine and it hasn't caused them any issue waiting and they've all had strong bones.

I talked with my vet on this subject and he has a policy of not neutering before 6 months for small to large dogs and 1 year for giant dogs, due to the need of hormones during growth.

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[senorita02]

We bought Senorita in Canada (im from Michigan) and the breeder would not send the pups to their new homes without being fixed first, Senorita was fixed at 6 weeks old!! Her ears were cropped the same day, i was expecting her to be in a lot of pain when we picked her up the next day but she was frollicking and happy as ever, so it seemed, anyway i dont agree with her being fixed so soon, we believe it has caused some problems with her genitilia being deformed & causing urinary incontinence which we had to have a major surgery for at one year, and now she is on meds to control it, i wasnt aware of fixing large/giant breed dogs too soon causing cancer. She is large/giant breed.
Thats horrible.
With Face our Rott we had the choice of doing it when we felt so we had him fixed at 2 years old.

[joycenalex]

and he is fine. i did it the day after the vet said he was old enough and he hasn't had any problems at all, and he's now nine years old; he's not a large breed, just 45# lab-terrier mystery mix.

[lute]

i think the sooner the better. i Got Trudy Spayed last week and she's only about 10-12 weeks old.