Mandatory Spay Neuter Gone Wild!

[CathyBogart]

Obscene! His truck was broken into, he wasn't just letting the dog roam...and he's to be punished for it why? It's not my business if he wants his dog to keep his dangly bits. He doesn't live in the city with mandatory neuter, he shouldn't have to comply. It's ridiculous.

[Catty1]

Kinda makes me wonder how secure he is with his OWN manhood....

[caseysmom]

With the mentality that spaying/neutering is sexually mutalating how do we expect to fight the battle of unwanted animals...its just unbelievable.

[SemaviLady]

Found this update , with not much more detail but includes a better photo.
Does look like a Cane Corso (Italian Mastiff). Ears were not cropped.
Most other articles just called the dog a 'mastiff'.


George says, "I believe that he comes to the world one way, he leaves the same way,".

Being that the dog doesn't have the ear crop, which some owners will opt to have done after they get these dogs when the breeder doesn't do it (breeders typically do the tail crop, like rotties and boxers are routinely done), this adds another element of interest regarding his passion for his dog and greater weight to his words.

This link might not last long but is typical of those who want 'the look' and want to have it done by a professional. Which is not a bad thing - Some folks with pit bulls sometimes have tried to do it at home, with scissors or knives.

May 25, 2007 9:30 PM
Subject: WANTED!! Cane Corso ear Cropping BY AN EXPERINCED VET.

I am in need of a vet who knows how to properly crop an Italian Cane Corso Mastiff's ears. If available please email me photos of your work along with price. I need two pups done. Pups are located in Fort Worth, TX.
Thanks

Cane Corsos

[Catty1]

My eye was caught by the picture behind the man hugging his dog - a fierce 'look-alike' in the picture(Kirk Douglas, I know), along with macho-tough fighting images.

I go back to thinking that, aside from spay-neuter being right or wrong in this case, he thinks neutering his dog would emasculate him, somehow.

I mean...he didn't choose a miniature poodle for a pet, did he?

[CathyBogart]

He drove SIX HOURS EVERY DAY to visit his dog.....that doesn't sound like someone who is just out to make a few bucks from puppies

[SemaviLady]

My eye was caught by the picture behind the man hugging his dog - a fierce 'look-alike' in the picture(Kirk Douglas, I know), along with macho-tough fighting images.

I go back to thinking that, aside from spay-neuter being right or wrong in this case, he thinks neutering his dog would emasculate him, somehow.

I mean...he didn't choose a miniature poodle for a pet, did he?

The picture and the pose certainly are staged, but given the thousands he had to pay so far -- how many bondsman will bail out a DOG? He had to post $10,000 in CASH because he unable to find a bondsman that would consider bailing out a DOG.

As to having miniature poodles working on farms, that just doesn't happen. So I think you meant that just as a "it's a male thing" suggestion and I think that sometimes too - of the various populations with which I sometimes have to deal.

Toy poodles were developed to be companions and don't really have the build or instincts move cattle or sheep nor protect livestock. They sometimes end up as coyote food, or some variation of that in rural and some semi-suburban areas. Coyotes and mountain lions have been seen walking down the roads in some suburban neighborhoods.

Some of the farms with working dogs that I know about have had cats and small dogs carried off by eagles or coyotes, cougars and the like. Dogs such as Anatolians, Maremma, Ovcharkas and Great Pyrenees on such farms can also protect the small fry of the farm by barking, charging at and deterring the predators. Cane Corso are drovers and a more athletic and natural looking dog than their cousins the Neopolitan Mastiff. I think the latter ones were more for rich folk with estates but Italian dogs are not my specialty.


One of the Anatolians I placed, works on a farm protecting miniature horses. A couple years ago, the owner noted that the dog had begun barking a lot late in the evening and they could not get her to shut up. Turns out she was keeping this mountain lion away from her horses.

They had Fish and Game come out to find the lion. It apparently had decided it liked easy pickings and was systematically killing dogs, cats, goats and other critters in the vicinity. The horses remained safe because the cat wasn't willing to face off a dog this size when easier pickings were next door. Neighbors who did not have farm guardians were losing their pets and livestock to the cat.

It was decided that rather than capture the cat and move to another area, which would be like moving an established child molester to another neighborhood to start an acclimated habit again, Fish & Game opted to track and shoot the cat.


The hero Anatolian with her mini horses here -- a few years later after her family moved to another farm.

[Catty1]

So I think you meant that just as a "it's a male thing" suggestion and I think that sometimes too

Yep!

Though if he wants a protector dog...doesn't neutering actually increase the dog's aggression (not sure if I remember the graphs correctly)?