Desex or not desex, that is the question! Desexing is one of the most important and beneficial things you can do for your dog, and for your community. We recommend desexing between the ages 6 and 18 months of age, depending on their size.
All anaesthetics face a risk. However, with today’s modern anaesthetics, pre-blood testing, and monitoring equipment, the risk of a complication is very low.
Restrict exercise, preferably by confining your dog for four to five days after surgery. Dogs that normally have active lifestyles may risk stretching their wound or damaging their stitches if allowed to excessively exercise too soon. After 10–14 days your dog may start to return to his normal exercise routine and/or active lifestyle. Until then your dog should only have on-lead walks with no running, jumping or swimming.
My dog will get fat after being desexed … F A L S E!
The metabolism does slow down after desexing and as the dog approaches six to 12 months of age, but providing you feed the correct type of food, don’t overfeed your dog and encourage regular exercise, you won’t have a fat dog.
Desexing will change my dog’s personality … F A L S E!
Desexing will not change your dog’s personality. Male and female dogs that are desexed have a nicer temperament as they are not as driven by their hormones and make much nicer family pets.
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