Any of you pointer/retriever guys neuter your males?

Wrecking your shite eh?

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best for the both of us

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Doubt he sees it that way

I'm not breeding and understand that. Anything else?

I found at when he was 1 that he had a genetic defect. His pallet in his mouth formed right before birth. he could have had a cleft pallet. So, we neutered him.

I ain't going to lie. His nick-name was violator before we fixed him. He's chill now, but his prey drive didn't fall off at all.

That's why I'm asking. Weight gain, drive loss, depression, etc.

Fine as long as he is older than 18 months. Any younger and you're losing valuable testosterone for growth/hormones. Vets are either idiots about this or don't give a shite and try to squeeze for money because they almost always try to pressure you to neuter way too early. I had to tell them 3 different times not to neuter my MBL who is now 7 months old

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Weight gain, drive loss, depression, etc.

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I haven't noticed any of that in my GSP. If anything, he is more focused when hunting.

When I had our older lab neutered around age 2 he spent a week not looking at me and moping around. He did gain weight. My pup is 9 months and I don't think I'm going to neuter him unless he gets unruly.

thoughts?

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Fine as long as he is older than 18 months. Any younger and you're losing valuable testosterone for growth/hormones. Vets are either idiots about this or don't give a shite and try to squeeze for money because they almost always try to pressure you to neuter way too early

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I 100% agree and I would wait until after 2.