Dog recently nutered - Day 6 - Need answers!

Mickee <Mickee.2klhpm.RemoveThis@dogbanter.com> wrote in
news:Mickee.2klhpm@dogbanter.com:

>
> After reading this thread I am really nervous about my baby now. He
is
> 6.5 years old and I have never had him neutered as I did not feel the
> need. He never gets out of the yard to reproduce, etc. But, now I am
> trying hard to finally once and for all get him housebroken and am
told
> I cannot do this without neutering. So on to the surgery. He is a
> doxie, but very large in that area as compared to the rest of him. I
> don't want him droopy and draggy. Do I ask for a scrotal ligation,
> will they do it anyway. I feel awful putting him through this at his
> age, but feel it must really be necessary.
>
> HELP!!!!

Don't be nervous at all. Older dogs are neutered all the time without
incident. Its a few days of discomfort, and then they're over
it....that's one of the amazing and fantastic things about dogs.

As most of us have experienced, and said in this thread, in an older dog
that's just being neutered, the drooping skin just takes a few weeks to
tighten back up. That's only because the testicles have stretched the
skin and it can take a little for that much skin to tighten....but
tighten it does!

And, yes, I think neutering is something you can do for yourself to help
make the housebreaking issues a bit easier.

In terms of your questions in the behavior group, I would get my hands
on the book _Training the Family Dog_ by Dr Patricia McConnell as soon
as you possibly can.

You have a lot of valid questions about corrections and about how to
teach behaviors, that I think it would be best for you to get your hands
on a comprehensive methods of how to go about it, that's written in a
good, straighfoprward way. That book is pretty good on those levels.

Tara

Tara wrote:
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> And, yes, I think neutering is something you can do for yourself to help
> make the housebreaking issues a bit easier.
<snip>

Umm...
I'd have left "for yourself" out of this sentence. It brings up some
odd images.

Kathleen