-> -> But back on topic.. I think we DO do animals a favor by neutering
-> -> them. Yet I would like to know about the validity of the 'decrease
-> -> cancer risk' claim.

->  WC> Supposed to be real.
->  WC> I gambled as the dog was 7 when a vet first mentioned it.
->  WC> My first dog.

->  Good to know. I ask because sometimes, not always science or the
-> people who interpret scientific data rather, will make false associations
-> if such suit or advances their opinion on something.

I suspect on average it's real.

-> I'm not sure but "they" say when an un-neutered dog doesn't get to
-> mate, hmmm if they have the urge enough and is un met- this can cause
-> stress which can further cause problems?

Stress?
My Pit Bull is stressed?
If he were any less stressed I'd have to put a heart monitor on him to
see if he's still alive.

My sister's Labrador ( neutered) OTOH twice went for my throat with
serious intent.

-> Reminds me. Back in Titusville (FL) a few years ago on a walk one
-> evening. My husband and I and our two little dogs (both fixed males)
-> came around the corner to three or four big very angry aggressive male
-> dogs who looked like they were going to attack our two. One of them
-> was humping a female there in the front yard. We picked up our dogs
-> and got out of there fast. Hubby says unfixed male dogs can smell a
-> female in heat, from miles around. 
 
Oh they can.
Spanky I can call away from a female in heat.
I trained him well.

-> Guess there was a lot of fence
-> jumping going on that night! I don't remember what kind of dogs they
-> were but they were all big...

->  WC> British Staffordshire Bull Terriers live on average 12 years,
->  WC> Spanky's 15 and feels and looks good.
->  WC> People guess he's 7.
->  WC> Guess I beat the odds, he has good genes  or I did something right.

->  You got a survivor there. :)

He started off almost dead as a puppy full of worms.
Vet said no use, put him down.
That was over 14 years ago.
Ex-girlfriend - ex-farmgirl got this horribly nasty wormer medication
for domestic animals ( either kills em or saves em) and getting dossage
just right Spanky lived.

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