Re: Neutering Poll

2002-12-09 Thread jean cheesman
>I was wondering how many of you have neutered/spayed/unneutered/unspayed females and males, and what you're reasoning for doing it or not doing it is--i.e. >breeding purposes or personal preference, or whatever--and how many BMDs you do have. My first Bernese, Tinka, I inherited aged 6/7 yrs and

RE: neutering poll

2002-12-09 Thread Rose Tierney
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Re: Neutering poll

2002-12-08 Thread Fran Jones
Sisco is our 3 year old intact male who we co-own with our breeder. He was kept intact while the rest of his litter was early spayed/neutered because our breeder saw potential as a future show quality guy. As it turned out, she was right and he finished his Can. Ch. when he was around 2. He h

Re: Neutering poll

2002-12-08 Thread David Nowell and Susan Burnham
>I was wondering how many of you have neutered/spayed/unneutered/unspayed females and males, and what you're reasoning for doing it or not doing it is--i.e. >breeding purposes or personal preference, or whatever--and how many BMDs you do have. We spayed Mattie (our only dog) when she was 8 months

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2002-12-07 Thread Anne Marie Ayotte
Hi everyone.  I neutered Thor at 3 1/2 years. I was showing him and had mild thoughts of using him at stud. But he started showing signs of aggression towards other dogs mainly males so I decided to nip that in the bud. At least remove the hormones. Its only been 2 months so haven't really seen alo

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2002-12-07 Thread Lisa Baldwin
i have one berner age 11, neutered at age 8 due to prostatitis. he was shown in conformation, not too successfully. (anyone who has seen me in the conformation ring could explain that!). my rottweiler was spayed at age 3 mos - on a non-breeding contract. my mixed breed was neutered at 8 weeks. th

Re: Neutering poll

2002-12-07 Thread Janice Parky
My first Berner, a male was neutered at 18 months. Never marked, lifted his leg when he felt like it. Only mounted the lovely female Basenji down the street. My current female was neutered at 10 months. She does not mark or lift her leg. I have seen females (neutered) of other breeds "mark".

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2002-12-07 Thread KendyBo
I have two Berners: Jackson, is 2 years old and was neutered when he was 6 months old. We had him neutered for two reasons: 1. We signed a contract that said we would, and he was sold on limited registration. 2. We didn't want to deal with the behavioral issues that come with an intact male.

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2002-12-07 Thread Claudia Brydon
<> I have three dogs and have had a couple others in the past. I like all of my dogs neutered/spayed as I never intend to breed anything. The only reason that I've left any intact past puppyhood was to show. Bandit, BMD, who lived to 7 1/2 was neutered at 4 1/2 after I convinced his breeder tha

Re: Neutering poll

2002-12-07 Thread Eileen Morgan
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hi there everyone...I was just thinking it would be interesting to do this since it's been a subject >we've been talking about a lot lately. I was wondering how many of you have >neutered/spayed/unneutered/unspayed females and males, and wh

Re: Neutering Poll

2002-12-07 Thread Annes4
In a message dated 12/07/2002 11:03:48 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Could anyone tell me whether or not he will stop “marking” after he is done or are we too late now. >> The best answer anyone can give about this is - Maybe. It seems that leg lifting can be as much

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2002-12-07 Thread Shadowbrook
We have a male Berner who was neutered before he was re-homed with us when he was 2. We have a female Berner who is not spayed who we had hoped to show and breed. She has not turned out to have a temperament for breeding or showing so she will be spayed soon. I discussed Callie's temperament wit

Re: Neutering poll

2002-12-07 Thread Annes4
Both my rehomed Berner and my rescue Cavalier are neutered, as is the rescue Cavalier we are fostering. Several reasons for neutering here are: health (no testicular cancer, less chance of prostate problems with age); reduced urine odor (that musky, male smell just doesn't happen); reduced cha

Re: Neutering Poll

2002-12-07 Thread Eileen Morgan
- Original Message - From: "Karen McFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Could anyone tell me whether or not he >will stop "marking" after he is done or are we too late now. He has >demonstrated this behavior for about 3-4 weeks. I neutered my Akita at about 1 year. He continued to show the ma

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2002-12-07 Thread Karen McFarlane
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2002-12-07 Thread DanniYell
Hi there everyone...I was just thinking it would be interesting to do this since it's been a subject we've been talking about a lot lately. I was wondering how many of you have neutered/spayed/unneutered/unspayed females and males, and what you're reasoning for doing it or not doing it is--i.e.