What is your challenge having an intact male?
I have a 7.5 month old male Kai. I don't plan to neuter him at least until he is a year old,
but I really do not want to if I can.....
I am wondering if you have any challenge having an intact male. If you do, can you share your experience?
Thanks!
but I really do not want to if I can.....
I am wondering if you have any challenge having an intact male. If you do, can you share your experience?
Thanks!
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No challenges here tho. I've never had dogs before these guys really, & I find keeping the intact male as easy as keeping the spayed female [ kishu ] . So, for me, there are no real challenges.
Your mileage may vary lol ~
Pursuing females in heat can be a bother, but again, my neutered Shiba does that too.
Im also curious as to how much of this is individual- ie: Kaiju was humpy way back to when Brad first got him as a puppy, yet Matsu has never humped anyone/thing. Maybe Kaiju is just a sexy guy and maybe Matsu is more reserved.
What ages do these behaviors tend to show up?
No humping (unless he gets really excited/anxious while playing) and only minimal marking while outdoors, never indoors.
No issues with marking for me, but the male pups did start off humping other dogs, especially during rowdy play. I discourage that behavior and it's disappeared.
He marks in the correct places 98% of the time. I always have to watch him when I take him to places like petsmart where other dogs have marked.
I don't really know anything else so I dont find toki challenging at all.
Tokis humping has been mainly a young puppy thing. He humped my leg once when he was about 3 or 4 months old, was scolded, and he hasn't humped a person since. Now, he play humps with other dogs, but even that seems less common these days. I kinda carefully watched the two dogs play and let the other dog correct him or jump in if shit was about to go down, which I can only think of one time: toki tried to hump a female new foundland and she wasnt thrilled of his advances, lol. Sometimes dogs dont care to be humped, some care. Different playing styles.
I was pretty self-congratulatory on easy it was to have an intact male because both dogs I had (AA and Kai Ken) were (note past tense) really easy. The Akita stayed that way. He marked outside but not like crazy and was pretty mellow. We neutered him at a little over a year, and everything was fine.
My Kai boy was great too. He marked outside a lot and had once marked in my friend's house where another dog had gone, but never any other inappropriate marking. He's sweet and mellow, though I note as he got older my neutered AA seemed to have more problems with him.
Then I don't know what happened. Right around a year of age he started marking like crazy. Not just a little, but everywhere. Indoors I mean. Not in our house (at first) but everywhere else we took him. So yeah, he doesn't care about the belly band either--he still keeps doing it. Then after two weeks of pissing on everything in his dog class, including people, he started doing it in our house too.
His neutering appt. is Monday. he's not going to be bred, he's over a year old, and I'm quite relieved to have him neutered.
Once me and my mom were walking the dogs and this loose terrier mix So we checked id and saw it was from a shelter that is nearby so we go to it. the shelter is closed.
Well along the way to the shelter this male dog marked none stop ever tree and post. I know it's normal for males to mark, but it got to point nothing came out and he kept doing it.
We were like come on we need get you to your owner not pee all over.
We checked for id tags which we should done in first place the dog had so many tags it was nuts. Turns out owner is near where we found him so we walked to there and he continued to slow us down by marking despite nothing coming out of him.
All my male dogs been neutered. They marked, but not too badly.
We don't have any females in the house, but he has never been very problematic with ones we meet that are in heat. He'll of course get stressed and try his best to get to her, but if I for instance put him in another room while the bitch is here it's no problem.
Then suddenly? EVERYWHERE! And the thing I really couldn't tolerate was peeing on people! Once he started doing it elsewhere, he started doing it here too. So yeah, I'll be glad to be done with this!
The funny thing in our house is to see how horrified the other dogs are when he does it, particularly Oskar, who backs away, like "badness! badness! I didn't do that!"
She's so butch.
Sosuke was neutered at about 18 months and he hasn't been any different since. He was well-behaved and we didn't experience any problems with him. He even went to an agility class with a female in heat and behaved himself there. He was really interested in all the places she had sat, but was still a good boy.
My one fear of getting a male dog was the whole humping people thing, but so far Goro has never done that! So far he's been a very good boy.
It's good to know that majority of you don't have any issues. My puppy marks every mailbox(glad we live in rural area), and likes to sniff a lot. He pees in various ways, both legs down like a little puppy, kneel down with one leg up an inch above from the ground, and also grownup way. He greeted a female in heat this morning but he seemed quite mellow, same as usual. I guess it's too young to get excited..... He used to hump many times until he was about 4 months old, but is now calm down, and I don't see him doing much. Not intact male issue, but my puppy has been shedding since January, and still
he is(we live in Texas). I think he is almost in summer coat. I hope it will pass soon as it's pain to clean the house.
@shibamistress Please let us know if his behavior is corrected after the surgery. I am very curious.