Is it worse to spay and get bone cancer than to not spay and get breast cancer?
Spayed females are not susceptible to life-threatening uterine infections and reproductive tract cancers that can occur in breeding females, as well as mastitis, ovarian cysts, miscarriages and delivery complications. All these can be expensive to treat, and dangerous to your animal's health. Almost half of unspayed female dogs will develop breast cancer, while spaying before first heat reduces the incidence to almost zero. Even later spaying greatly reduces the risk.
mnp13 wrote:You also have a signifigantly higher risk of spay incontenance if you have to do a pyometra spay. Pyo spays are considerably more expensive (Ruby's was $800) and have a much higher death rate.
Miakoda wrote:Maybe I can contact her to get a copy of the video
Emi wrote:If we want to go back to the nature of things...
By nature dogs are pack animals ... and in a pack only 2 dogs breed the alpha male and alpha female , and the others don't mate and produce off spring .
Lisa wrote:Emi wrote:If we want to go back to the nature of things...
By nature dogs are pack animals ... and in a pack only 2 dogs breed the alpha male and alpha female , and the others don't mate and produce off spring .
Dont forget that by nature wild canids also only have only 1 heat cycle per year.
Spay/neuter alone is not the only factor that should be considered when analyzing cancer risk. We have genetically changed many things about our companions who can hardly be considered "narural" any longer. Has anyone done breed, age, or diet comparisons on these cancer studies? Although these studies are presenting facts, they are a select portion of the facts, and I dont thin that in most of the cases, whether or not the animals were inact were the only contributing factors to their cancers... any more than I believe that dog bite statistics are acurate... you have to look at the big picture.
Going thru twice as many heat cycles as natural is not healthy either. Breast cancer in women who dont have children is much higher due to having more hormone cycles (not missing them durring pregnancy and breast feeding). But I DO NOT plan on having kids to reduce my risk.
Having assisted in pyo surgeries, I DO spay. Also, studies aside, ALL prostate problems I have seen in the practices I worked for were intact dogs.
I also successfully compete in many sports and my dogs have all been altered. I dont feel being intact improves working ability. But I do like to see breeding dogs being worked and titled.
pitbullpony wrote:I certainly see the benefit to spay and not having to worry about pyometra. However please don't discount the potential health ramifications of neuter or spay on your animals. I find it interesting that pyometra is so often occuring - horses and cows due to cost are very rarely spayed and they are mucky about their backend - they very rarely suffer any problems until much later in life.
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