About Neutering Your Male

Neutering sterilizes a male dog so he's incapable of parenting puppies. Many, many wonderful health and behavioral effects occur because he's undergone "the big snip." It's a simple surgery, far more so than a spay. Under anesthesia, an incision is made in front of the scrotum, and then the...

Neutering your male

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