If you get them done when they are 6 months old, they are less likely to lift a leg and more likely to squat.
The shelter that I adopted Duncan from told me he was about a yr old when I got him! Boy, were they wrong!! He was neutered before I brought him home and at his vet visit the next week, the vet said he wasn't even 6 months old since he still had his baby teeth!! He's also doubled in size since then! I guess it was hard for the shelter people to tell since he is a really big dog, then and now!!
I kind of like the squatting thing! It's so cute and puppyish!! Purrley, not all dogs so the "marking" thing. My roommate's dog does. He pees on every tree, bush, blade of grass he comes across! Duncan, on the other hand, although he hasn't started lifting his leg yet, and he may never..., he is all about getting down to business! He just pees and moves on to the next thing! I think he thinks "OK, Mommy wants me to pee and poop real fast so then we can move on to the P L A Y thing!!!!!!"


His way is kind of nice, if you ask me! I always wonder, though, if he gets "teased" by his dogpark friends at all...
I thought that too!!!! I don't want him to look "wussy!" I don't think they do, they're "too cool"!