Comments on: Las Vegas Requires Pets to be Altered http://www.avenuek9.com/2009/11/22/las-vegas-requires-pets-to-be-sterilized/ Be Crazy About Your Dog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:50:19 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cindy V http://www.avenuek9.com/2009/11/22/las-vegas-requires-pets-to-be-sterilized/comment-page-1/#comment-8999 Cindy V Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:26:24 +0000 http://www.avenuek9.com/?p=3578#comment-8999 Unfortunately, dogs get cancer and there are many reasons for it. Getting spayed/neutered may be something her dogs had, but there are also a lot of other things they also had (diet, genetic predisposition, drugs they may have taken, and chemicals they are exposed to). There IS research suggesting spaying/neutering should happen at around 4-6 months old for cats and dogs, to allow for maturation of organs but before the first round of heat, for females dogs, for example. 2-years-old just seems like a very arbitrary number, and I don't understand what spaying/neutering would have to do with bones. I'd be interested in knowing why she specificially said 2. Another unfortunate thing about research that has been done on this is that they are correlational, which doesn't tell us much except that certain things happen to coincide together, and provides no information on any factors that explain why something happens. There IS good research suggesting that male dogs that don't get neutered and spayed have a significantly increased risk of getting cancer in their reproductive organs, for example, testicular cancer in males. Unfortunately, dogs get cancer and there are many reasons for it. Getting spayed/neutered may be something her dogs had, but there are also a lot of other things they also had (diet, genetic predisposition, drugs they may have taken, and chemicals they are exposed to). There IS research suggesting spaying/neutering should happen at around 4-6 months old for cats and dogs, to allow for maturation of organs but before the first round of heat, for females dogs, for example. 2-years-old just seems like a very arbitrary number, and I don’t understand what spaying/neutering would have to do with bones. I’d be interested in knowing why she specificially said 2.

Another unfortunate thing about research that has been done on this is that they are correlational, which doesn’t tell us much except that certain things happen to coincide together, and provides no information on any factors that explain why something happens.

There IS good research suggesting that male dogs that don’t get neutered and spayed have a significantly increased risk of getting cancer in their reproductive organs, for example, testicular cancer in males.

]]> By: LeeAnn http://www.avenuek9.com/2009/11/22/las-vegas-requires-pets-to-be-sterilized/comment-page-1/#comment-8997 LeeAnn Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:04:43 +0000 http://www.avenuek9.com/?p=3578#comment-8997 I just heard that you should wait until at least 2yrs before spaying or neutering your dog because it can cause bone cancer which they can die from very quickly. Don't know if this is true for most or any dogs but some research on it would be good since a lady came into the store the other day and said it happened to two of her three dogs. I just heard that you should wait until at least 2yrs before spaying or neutering your dog because it can cause bone cancer which they can die from very quickly. Don’t know if this is true for most or any dogs but some research on it would be good since a lady came into the store the other day and said it happened to two of her three dogs.

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