When did you nueter?

Caro said:
By law, over here you are required to get your dog desexed by 6mths. Yep, that's right 6mths unless you get a special license or are registered with the Kennel Club. Most people get their dogs done at around 9mths though and most vets will recommend waiting until then. Deska was neutered at 12mths, only because I wanted to see if those testes would drop. He was a very easy teenager, had a humongous coat and was oversized by the time he was desexed. Tully was a show dog but I ended up desexing her before 12mths because she was attacked several times and the vet said it was likely because she was small and intact (prime target for aggressive, unconfident dogs, esp females). It was the end of her show career but she never got attacked again.
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Wow, is that law just in the ACT Caro? I know in NSW there is no law requiring desexing but the fee you have to pay for council registration by 6 months of age is pretty much 4 times more expensive if the dog hasn't been desexed by that time.
 
Skysong said:
Wow, is that law just in the ACT Caro? I know in NSW there is no law requiring desexing but the fee you have to pay for council registration by 6 months of age is pretty much 4 times more expensive if the dog hasn't been desexed by that time.
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No that's right, it's the same throughout Aust. Special permit is required for those who do not desex unless you are a member of one of the ANKC state bodies. The permits are quite strict and is only on the following grounds - for breeding or show, racing greyhound or detrimental to health (with vet evidence). Very different to other countries where desexing itself is considered detrimental. It's interesting that the 6mths was supported and recommended by RSPCA, which doesn't really correlate with the 9mths recommended by many vets.

Have you noticed that most dogs owned by the average person that aren't desexed also tend be unregistered or are registered as desexed. Here an intact dog gets a different coloured tag. I'm always picking strays, almost all intact, and either never with a rego tag or without the correct one. It's about 5x the cost to get one of these out of the pound. A guy near me finally got his cattle dog desexed after the 3rd or 4th payment (you know how cattle dogs can scale fences) - worked out the cheaper option, and the dog stopped jumping the fence after that. One expensive lesson learnt.
 
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Well, Cooper just came out of surgery. He is now a neutered male. My poor baby. It's so hard to watch when it is your own!!
 
Cookie got neutered at six months, even though I wanted to wait til a year. He had to be neutered to come to work with me and that was a necessity at the time so…6 months it was :C
 
I tried the cone with Bailey since he likes to lick himself :eek2: however he constantly bashed it around & managed to get it off even though they fitted it for him at the vet. Although it was not attaached to his collar.

I decided to use a t-shirt with holes for his feet but he managed to stick his nose into the tiny gap even though I tried to make it pretty snug.

Now he is wearing those washable cover-ups made for female dogs in heat and they are wokring great! The pink & purple colors are not very masculine but he only wears them in the house :-o

His surgery was Friday & so far everything is looking good. You would never know he had surgery, I picked him up Friday & he was ready to go, ate his dinner no problem ( I fed it in 2 smaller portinos) & the next day he was back to his high energy self.....trying to keep him quiet has been a challenge with the cat around :lol:

Bailey in his T-shirt & "underwear" playing with his cone :rolleyes2:
 

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SueEllen said:
I tried the cone with Bailey since he likes to lick himself :eek2: however he constantly bashed it around & managed to get it off even though they fitted it for him at the vet. Although it was not attaached to his collar.

I decided to use a t-shirt with holes for his feet but he managed to stick his nose into the tiny gap even though I tried to make it pretty snug.

Now he is wearing those washable cover-ups made for female dogs in heat and they are wokring great! The pink & purple colors are not very masculine but he only wears them in the house :-o

His surgery was Friday & so far everything is looking good. You would never know he had surgery, I picked him up Friday & he was ready to go, ate his dinner no problem ( I fed it in 2 smaller portinos) & the next day he was back to his high energy self.....trying to keep him quiet has been a challenge with the cat around :lol:

Bailey in his T-shirt & "underwear" playing with his cone :rolleyes2:
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My gabe just was neutered at 9 months old . He did great! I wanted to wait until a year but gabe started marking the walls... so that has been nipped in the bud!
 
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