Bruce's dog Max isn't neutered yet, so at daycare he was kept in a small room on his own while Judge, who is, went out to play. Ben had Bowie neutered as a puppy, and the humping dropped off dramatically; the rest of Bowie stayed exactly who he was. Makenzie was spayed before she turned six months old, and years later started marking everything, as if to tell every dog she has met even once that she has been here too.
Three dogs, one routine surgery, and three owners still turning the decision over.
This is a conversation about what one routine surgery means in the four countries we live in.
Bruce had Judge neutered after being told that otherwise he would get cancer at some point, guaranteed. A few months later, a doctor he worked with told him there were really no studies showing it prevents cancer. Judge, meanwhile, still marks every tree, fire hydrant and light post, lifting his leg even when nothing comes out. At a friend's dog's birthday party at the dog park, he lifted it on a woman standing behind the red streamers, and on the birthday dog too. Now Bruce has to decide about Max, in a country where he feels it's harder not to neuter your dog than to do it.
The conversation moves through Kane, the unneutered German Shepherd guard dog in Ben's family, who Ben says isn't much different from the neutered dogs around him, just impossible to get a toy off. Through Ben's reason for neutering Bowie, so bigger dogs wouldn't smell him as a threat, and his theory that Bowie rolls in poo to mask a testosterone smell he no longer has. Through what I've seen in Germany, where unspayed females share the same parks and woods as everyone else, and owners simply walk a different way, or at a different time, while a dog is in heat.
Is it a decision about the dog, or about the place you live with it?
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