My cockerspaniel is a little over a year old is it too late to get him fixed so he stops humping other dogs at the dog park or is his behavior already set because I didn't get him fixed at 6 months?

It's never too late to get a dog fixed. A humane society will neuter a dog at a much cheaper rate that a vet. Mine spayed my pitbull for free through a grant that the county was having.

Its good that he hasnt started humping things yet, that means that if you get him fixed now, he probably never will. They get sedated during surgery and neutering is a very quick process. He'll get a small line tattooed on his thigh or tummy to let others know hes been neutered.

Once he comes out of anesthesia he'll be allowed to go home. He may still be a little doped up and wobbly, he may even throw up a few times, but thats normal. Within a day or two he'll be fine.

He will have to wear a cone so he doesn't lick at or bite his stitches. He'll recover just fine and you won't have to worry about it ever again. Good luck!

I know multiple breeders with large dogs who put it into their contacts that you CANNOT spay/neuter before two years. It can completely ruin your dogs body if you do it too early. (And their dogs are all extremely healthy.

VERY Low rates of thyroid issues, cancer, hip dysplasia... Not saying it's from waiting until the dogs are done growing, but I suggest looking into Castratos. It's a practice that has been banned to my knowlage, where people would castrate their young sons to turn them into singers to keep the higher voice before women were allowed into theater in euroupian countries. They were usually badly deformed compaired to 'normal' men.

This also happens in dogs, only we don't reconize it because almost all dogs are fixed too early, and therefor, deformed.) But, ya know. You could also trust the people who tell you that your puppy needs vacines EVERY year (they don't. My dogs get a tilt test done.

My 14 year old great dane has only had six shots his entire life for vacines, and his anti-bodies are still coming back nice and strong on the tilt test, which shows he is imune to rabies/kennel cough, ect.). Or that dry dog foods are the best. If you look at most breeds, there will be some sort of diffrence between the males and females if they are not 'fixed' before they're done growing.

For instance, i'll point out great danes because i've been around so many of them! Females are lighter built, their skulls have softer points, and are allot smother and 'flow' easier than the males. They also have a smaller chest, and stand shorter.

With Collies (Think of Lassi), the males have a huge mane! Infact, the dog who played lassi was a male. Females are almost never that 'poofy'.

Allot of dogs are like this, including great pyrenese. And as a general rule, nobody is 100% sure about the health of early 'fixing'. At least I haven't found a real flow of agreement.

You have the studies that showed it was 'okay' and 'the best' for dogs/cats to be spayed VERY young. This was reserch made for shelters, so they could fix all their animals and get them on their way while they were still cute. You have studies that show it's horrible and wrong, but don't explain who did the studies.

But then you have owners who say spaying young helps keep their pets healthy. Then you have breeders who sell 5k pups from other countries who demand you do not spay untill a certian time has passed. (The longest I have heard of was 4 years for a mans saint benards).

These are the breeders who don't advertise but have people waiting on their list for years for just the right pup to come around. (The right tempermant for what they need, the right pairing, ect.). These are the dogs who unless you are on the 'in' you will never recive because they are the best of the best.

High quality working dogs, for police and drug work, or show work, or even out in the feild work. Or just as a quality protection dog, or for agility. The ones that have a job to do, and can't be getting ill from a bad start in life.

Really, I suggest doing some research. My great dane still moves around better than some seven year old dogs i've seen. Sure he dosen't race around, but he still moves on his own just fine and will still chase a ball every so often and goes on his walks.

He was fixed when he was three. My new girl is about the same age as your guy. She's a working-line GSD, imported from russia, and will not be fixed untill two years old at the earliest.

I have been waiting on her for about three years now. (She is my service dog, and has a life-long warenty, if something happens or as she ages her tempermant goes wrong, I can 'trade' her. She also has a three year hip dysplasia clause, if she gets it before she is three years old, I get my money back or a new puppy to start training with.

This is typical of the truely good breeders.) If you have a toy breed; i'd suggest waiting a few more months untill he's done growing at the LEAST. His growth plates need to be closed. If he is larger, wait longer.

I plan on waiting untill my new girl is done bulking up. So at the very least, two years. Possibly three or four.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.