Health damage due to improper spay and neuter of dogs - Page 1

There is a safer and more healthy way to do spays and neuters if pet owners will just demand it.  It doesn't cost more and has more to do with vasectomy vs castration for male dogs.  Clearly veterinarians and the veterinarian education schooling programs have let our animals suffer needless health hazards, sickness, and death by clinging to outdated methods of spay and neuter.

http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2016/07/27/neutering-spaying-effects.aspx?utm_source=petsnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20160727Z1&et_cid=DM112154&et_rid=1590006180

I am so sick of vets telling dog owners they should spay/neuter at 4 months old. Greedy, Mod edit, swearing.
I now tell buyers my guaranteed void if done before at least one year old.
they do the same thing with vaccines...

Reading the article, it states how female rots live longer than males on average. Is that true with German shepherds as well? I had read that females had more general health issues.

Chris

My previous Russian Wolfhound male was once captureed by Animal Control. He was at the pound. They would not let me bail him out unless he was castrated and instead would euthanize him. This was a dog so soft that he needed every bit of testosterone he could possibly produce. So I got my vet to give him a vasectomy. The vet checked the box "sterilized" :)

Since I now have a 5 month GSD bitch, I am concerned about her hormonal influenced full development before spaying. It is said that after the second heat period is a good time to spay because there is still a high protection from breast cancer, according to multiple research. She is a companion dog, not a protection dog.