Even if it's not the healthiest thing to do and a lot of people don't believe in doing it before they are grown, what is someone in my position supposed to do? I don't have an option to wait, plain and simple. So all the studies and arguments, as valid as some may be, it's not like I can make the choice not to. I used to be under the impression *early* spay and neuter was very early, I know alot of people do it when they are brand new pups, even before leaving the breeder a lot of times. That seems a bit extreme to me but not when they are 6-7 months old or so. But I know it's still considered early to some.
Even so, it still stands that it needs to be done and will be done because I just don't have the choice. The dogs we have had, have always been altered and not at an older age and we never had problems with them fortunately, though they weren't giant breed. My mom never got around to neutering her last dog, a Cocker Spaniel and he was just never a happy dog. He had SOO much pent up energy, was just crazy hyper until he died. Some may have just been his personality but I don't know because I've never had an intact male dog besides.
All I know is someone has to get fixed here eventually, one or the other and after thinking about it more, I'd rather them do it together. The one thing that did concern me was all the talk about females becoming incontinent after being spayed- that would be awful. I haven't done enough reading about it to understand it yet.
