Caraline
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Sonny & Beau getting the snip on Tuesday - Home Safe & Sound
Well I never thought I would do it. I've always been anti unnecessary surgery and I love the boy in the dog. I've had many male dogs in the past and not had peeing in the house problems with any of them, so anybody who's heard me on my band waggon would know that I'd never seen having an intact male around the house as a problem.
Unfortunately with Sonny & Beau, those feelings have been gradually dwindling away. We had adopted Sonny at aged 2 & he was pretty well house broken & a nice clean boy in the house. Beau too was very easy to house train & he too never peed in the house, though they both liked to mark every tree outside. The problem started a few months ago, I guess at about the time that Beau's big boy hormones cut in. The truth is that I don't think Beau is the main problem. I think it is primarily Sonny. It started with a couple of squirts here & there but has become increasingly more common. The crunch came this morning, when I picked up a urine soaked doona & pillow (that my husband had left laying on the floor).
As Sonny is an x-stud dog, we were under an agreement with his breeders not to have him neutered until after they were sure they would not like to use him as stud again. Thankfully, they have given us their consent to go ahead with the neutering.
I don't really know why it is that with these two little fellows their behaviour has been different to our past dogs. Perhaps it is that our previous dogs, though intact, were all virgin dogs. Whereas Sonny, have been used for stud before, maybe he is more territorial & inclined to mark. I guess I will never really know.
Anyway, Tuesday is their big day. I do feel sad about it and I hope that the surgery does not change their personalities. They both also have lovely silky coats & I am dreading the big boofy curly coats that I have heard resulting from neutering. Still, I think it is for the best.
Well I never thought I would do it. I've always been anti unnecessary surgery and I love the boy in the dog. I've had many male dogs in the past and not had peeing in the house problems with any of them, so anybody who's heard me on my band waggon would know that I'd never seen having an intact male around the house as a problem.
Unfortunately with Sonny & Beau, those feelings have been gradually dwindling away. We had adopted Sonny at aged 2 & he was pretty well house broken & a nice clean boy in the house. Beau too was very easy to house train & he too never peed in the house, though they both liked to mark every tree outside. The problem started a few months ago, I guess at about the time that Beau's big boy hormones cut in. The truth is that I don't think Beau is the main problem. I think it is primarily Sonny. It started with a couple of squirts here & there but has become increasingly more common. The crunch came this morning, when I picked up a urine soaked doona & pillow (that my husband had left laying on the floor).
As Sonny is an x-stud dog, we were under an agreement with his breeders not to have him neutered until after they were sure they would not like to use him as stud again. Thankfully, they have given us their consent to go ahead with the neutering.
I don't really know why it is that with these two little fellows their behaviour has been different to our past dogs. Perhaps it is that our previous dogs, though intact, were all virgin dogs. Whereas Sonny, have been used for stud before, maybe he is more territorial & inclined to mark. I guess I will never really know.
Anyway, Tuesday is their big day. I do feel sad about it and I hope that the surgery does not change their personalities. They both also have lovely silky coats & I am dreading the big boofy curly coats that I have heard resulting from neutering. Still, I think it is for the best.
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