A Me Meme

[jadecat]

From sexnazi:

Chances are people you don't even know are being introduced to your journal every day, either randomly or through someone else. In addition to recent entries, people can get to know you better by what you posted in the past. With that in mind post links to your entries exactly six months ago, nine months ago, and a year ago. If there was no entry on that day, link the closest date.

Six Months Ago

Nine Months Ago

One Year Ago
(that's not terribly exciting)

That 'one year ago' was lame- so here's another:
One Year Ago Yesterday (That's much better- there's a theme... ;) )

Comments

[sexnazi.livejournal.com]

aww, yeah, Leo's gotcha story. ♥ Even if it was about him getting snipped.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Well yeah... but it's for the best. Dear God he's such a hellion now I dread to think what he'd be like if he weren't snipped!

[sexnazi.livejournal.com]

Blitz is still intact (and will be until at least 18 months). I'm cherishing his hellion days!

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Heh, the Blitzdozer gets to stay intact for awhile huh? If you don't mind my asking, why wait until he's 18 months old?

As for Leo- we actually don't know how old he is precisely. When we got him they said he was a year old, but I'm pretty sure that was just an estimate.

[sexnazi.livejournal.com]

The bottomline is because we want him to fully develop to the best of his natural genetic potential first.

Early (pre-puberty) neutering delays the closure of the growth plates, leading to longer bones and larger overall size. There is also evidence to support that animals neutered really early are behaviorally closer to sub-adults due to reduced development of their sexual organs. While the arguments that neutering may make a male dog more mellow, loving, etc, is a plus for many, it's not for us -- we want him to be the dog he's born to be! There are some other things as well, but nothing concrete.

Early neutering isn't bad. In general, I do support it, and very much so. The effects of doing so are not necessarily bad for the dog; we'd just rather have Blitz develop fully. The biggest risk is that some dogs take violent exception to intact males -- we've not run into any but we have to be careful when meeting new dogs.

Tobi was neutered just before 4 months and he's perfectly fine, although I do regret it a bit now.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Well that makes sense. With cats the thing tends to be worry about male cats spraying- and they will. That smell, I've heard, it damned near immpossible to get out. I've been lucky and haven't experienced it for myself.

My former housemates have a purebred GSD they were hoping to breed so he's entact. And yes, other male dogs have taken violent exception to him. I don't know how many times he's gotten attacked- and he's one of the mellowest dogs I know. He doesn't want to fight at all - but other dogs apparently think they have something to prove. What was actually kind of funny was watching a full grown pug try to go for Max's throat. The pug's mouth was just too small to get through Max's ruff!

My main concern with spaying/neutering is over population. I knew you weren't one of those 'oh, they should mate once for the experience before they get spayed/neutered' morons. Those are the ones that annoy me. You're waiting to improve the puppy- not make more. ;)

[sexnazi.livejournal.com]

Haha, improve the puppy. Yep. We're the people who WANT him to have all the crazy Boy Dog characteristics. Which, of course, includes the leg-lifting -- he did it in the house once, completely at random, and he peed on Tobi, also once.

We did talk about what to do if Blitz accidentally got a girl pregnant. *gasp* We'd pay for her care and keep all the puppies if the owner insisted on letting the pregnancy run its course. Yes, all of them. Keep! Every one! Even if there were 10! Yikes :)

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Not supposed to make me laugh like that at work! The image of lil Blitz peeing on Tobi... Oh that same pug... he would try to pee over where Max had gone, there were a couple times I thought he was going to tip over!

Almost a dozen Blitzdozers... you do have renters/home insurance, yes? ;) Poor Tobi might disown you though...

I knew you were good people!