The importance of spay/neuter:

I recommend spaying/neutering by 6 months of age. Done at a young age, this helps to avert mammary tumors, testicular tumors, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, and infections in the uterus or prostate, and of course it prevents pregnancies. When a dog is neutered before it is sexually mature, it does not ever miss what it has never known—sex. Neutering will help make dogs less inclined to roam, less threatening to other dogs, less quarrelsome, and more interested in being with his people. A dog does not become overweight from being spayed or neutered, only from being fed too much. Links about spay/neuter http://www.hsus.org/ace/11879
http://www.spayusa.org/index.html

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