scare tactics... - Page 2

So sorry to hear that story KitKat.  He was a gorgeous

dog too, from that pic.   RIP beautiful boy.  A tragedy -

whether the anaesthetic was handled badly or not, whether

the vet exagerated the cancer risk or not.

Live and learn. Some learn the hard way. That dog's task on this earth was giving to these poor folks such lesson. How sad. 

I advice to my clients if vet or it's assistant makes such suggestion to pick the dog at that moment and leave. I have do so myself while muttering into mu mustache 

Prager Hans 

For the record, testicular cancer in a dog with two normal testicles present in the scrotum is the least of all things that I would place any weight on when considering whether or not to neuter an intact male--a dog with one or both testicles retained, absolutely, that cancer is one of the two reasons I would urge neutering, though if the dog only has one retained, I see nothing wrong with only removing the retained one and leaving the normal, healthy testicle where it belongs.

kitkat, he was a gorgeous boy, and he'll be sorely missed by his people.

But, hexe, that is precisely what vets say to convince reluctant owners to cut their healthy dog...testicular ca.

 I could write a book on all the assinine things Vets have done to my dogs or told Me to do.From a Co-owners Vet telling her that her pregnant bitchs C-section can wait till Monday when her due date was the previous Thurs and her progesterone and temp was saying due it now on Friday! (The pups all died) to one of my Clients taking his new pup in for the Well Puppy exam and the Vet looking the photo of his Sire in his Puppy Book tells My Client that the Sire could have HD because of the way he's standing(stacked). Needless to say,that Clinic got a call from Me. Just this last Summer I lost a young dog that was in my Foster program.The fault definately was with the foster first but it was the emergency Vets bad decisions and judgement that took it from bad to beyond saving. Of course this happened at the absolute worst time-Holiday and Im on vacation in a area with no cell service. I could go on and on about the Vet subject. By the way,just out of curiousity- Have any of you ever had a male develope Testicular Cancer? In over 26 yrs of owning Stud dogs,Ive never seen it.     

Been breeding 40 years.............haven't seen it.

Jill

I've had dogs for six decades, many of them entire males, not for breeding but because I don't believe in routine castration and have never had a dog with it.

Been breeding since 1976 and  NO.  NO testicular cancer.  Well take that back, one male with some sort of something, took that one off and left the other one and he by AI fathered a litter of 7 at 10 years old.  ????????????? Hummmmmmmmmmmm.

As a vet tech, I've only come across two cases of testicular cancer, and both dogs were unilateral cryptorchids, and the affected gonad was the one that was retained..

Hexe, this doesn't account for why vets tell that to people with dogs. They can't come up with a compelling reason to routinely cut dogs, so scare them. I have found that the benefits of cutting a dog is not equal to cutting a horse. My sled dogs were all entire except one who had prostatitis that didn't respond to any other treatment. Eleven of them lived to be fifteen and sixteen, none of them were ever bred and no ill health because they were allowed to die with all that they were born with.