Disadvantages of dog neutering:

1. Neutering triples the chance of dog obesity. Being overweight is prone to arthritis, heart disease, pancreatitis, and diabetes. After a dog is neutered, if the owner continues to feed it the same amount of food as before neutering, the dog will easily gain weight. This is because neutered dogs undergo changes in their hormonal metabolism and therefore no longer need as much food.

2. Sterilization increases the risk of hemangioma. Hemangioma commonly occurs in the heart and spleen. Neutered dogs are twice as likely to develop splenic hemangioma and four times more likely to develop cardiac hemangioma than non-neutered dogs.

3. Sterilization triples the chance of developing hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism can cause obesity, lethargy, and hair loss, but these symptoms can be controlled with daily thyroid medication.

Benefits of dog sterilization:

1. If the dog is neutered before two and a half years old, the risk of breast tumors, uterine tumors, cervical tumors and mammary tumors can be significantly reduced. It can also avoid excessive childbirth, which will accelerate the aging of body organs.

2. Neutering can dilute a dog’s territorial awareness and improve its aggression.

3. Neutering can reduce the risk of being attacked by other male dogs. Even if your dog is naturally docile and good-tempered, unneutered female dogs are more likely to be targeted by other male dogs.

4. Neutering can help shift the dog’s attention from other dogs to the owner. Unneutered dogs spend a lot of their energy paying attention to other dogs. Neutering and proper training can greatly improve this, allowing the dog to focus more on its owner, and its obedience will naturally improve.

5. Neutering can reduce mating behavior. The mating behavior here not only refers to actual mating, but also refers to dogs versus toys. Neutering combined with owner education can reduce and avoid this indecent behavior.