| I don't buy into fixing males because of attitude changes. We have always owned male rottweilers or dobermans, and ALL of them were fixed up until my current 3 yr old male, who remains and will remain intact. All the dogs before, poorly bred, were not that great with their temperments, and frankly, fixing them didn't do a damn thing.
My boy now, trained and with good sound genes/pedigree, he is as sweet as pie with the family, low rank drive and has never in his life mounted a person. He knows who wears the pants in teh house and rarely do I have to remind him. I had one or two "moments" with him as he was growing, but they were those odd spirts of challenges that I would attribute to the breed rather than the jewels. :p
Now, if you rescued your dog, don't have any papers or any idea as to the dog's genetic background, then I would definitely have your dog fixed. The risk of health problems associated with poorly bred dogs is way too high to keep the dog intact, but this would be the only reason for which I would put him under the knife.
I really think way too many people add intact male + temperment problems and feel they are inseparable. Frankly, if you have a well bred dog with sound temperment and train him appropriately, keeping him intact should mean little in the dog's eventual disposition towards the family.  |