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Sorry, I don't buy the 'spayed bitches lose their aggressive edge' any more than I buy into the myth that spaying and neutering makes dogs fat. Feeding a dog more calories than their activity level requires makes dogs fat; and while some bitches may become happy to lie around lazily if their owners permit them to do so, spayed bitches whose activity levels remain unchanged from before they were spayed may not even require a reduction in their food intake. Yes, the loss of the hormones that accompanies traditional sterilization techniques does affect the metabolism to varying degrees, but if the dog's owner adjusts the food as soon as they see the dog gaining extra weight, the animal will not become fat. I've had a lot of dogs, but I've never had a neutered or spayed one that was fat if I managed their food intake.

So, Optic Nerve, if your bitch is fat, you're overfeeding her. Reduce the groceries and she'll drop the excess weight.

So now you've added another clue to the mystery:

"HER tail hangs down like a show dog though and draggs she cannot carry her tail up that high and she doesnt wag it that much or  even use her tail much."

THIS is SO not normal. THIS would immediately cause me concern that there is something amiss with the spine: one or more compressed disks, or cauda equina syndrome, for example.  Yeah, I get that you've already laid out a small fortune on her so far, but it's time to spend a little more, and get her in to see a veterinary orthopedic specialist before you do any more bitework with her. If she DOES have any compromise to one of the vertebral disks, you don't want to risk pushing it to the point of rupture by working her, because then you'll really have a problem on your hands, and it will be far bigger than her bite strength. She needs imaging of her spine if she isn't able to use her tail the way she previously was able to use it.