Eyes, ears, soft palate, spine & tail, knees, etc, have particular Bully problems, all of them heritable. ... Well a.
Agreeing with @JoanneF here, it’s never “too early” to consider neutering a M pup, as any healthy pup can be safely desexed as soon as they weigh 2# / 1-kg, & in fact, pediatric desex is the safest age to desex any dog (pediatric is before 12-WO).
As approx 50% of pups are M, & only a few are needed to sire the next generation, any prospective sire must be good enuf to consider him excellent. There is no point in reproducing mediocre dogs; the intention of breeding is always to produce pups who are BETTER THAN their parents.
So there are always huge numbers of M dogs who are simply excess; they are not needed to breed, & in fact are not wanted to breed, as they are not excellent representatives of their breeds, or they have less than stellar temperaments.
Mere physical looks are not enuf; any dog of either sex needs to be screened for heritable issues, which isn’t cheap, plus they should earn some recognition by folks other than their doting owner’s that they are, indeed, excellent specimens, physically, mentally, emotionally stable, & in performance. It’s not just looks.
Good joints, eyes, skin, ears, open nostrils (not vertical slits), good teeth, & so on, are only the beginning. Only radiographs can reveal if his hips, knees, & elbows are good to excellent, & I would recommend Penn-HIP as the scoring process, not the BVA scheme (in the UK) nor the AKC version (in the U-S) which uses the OFA - Orthopedic Foundation for Animals.
Penn-HIP is scores dogs within their breeds, not compared to an “ideal sighthound skeleton” as OFA does, but GSD to GSD, Beagle to Beagle, etc. // ALL the dogs who are radiographer are kept on file, U cannot cherry-pick & decide not to record / file the x-rays of a dog with poor joints, so Penn-HIP is far more accurate in ratings, plus it tracks the breed’s ongoing joint quality, for better or worse.
Neither BVA nor OFA track breed statistics with any accuracy, as both are opt-in, & lousy rads are tossed in the trashcan, not filed.
Bulldogs have multiple heritable issues, which should all be screened for prior to even considering a dog as sire or dam material.
Cryptic gonads / retained testes are highly, highly heritable, so I would personally get him neutered, if he was mine. // Normal development has both testes in the scrotum by 6-WO, before they even leave their dam and littermates.
- terry
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well thank god your not the vet,, I think I’ll take my chances and wait till he’s a year to decide what’s what,.
Agreeing with @JoanneF here, it’s never “too early” to consider neutering a M pup, as any healthy pup can be safely desexed as soon as they weigh 2# / 1-kg, & in fact, pediatric desex is the safest age to desex any dog (pediatric is before 12-WO).
As approx 50% of pups are M, & only a few are needed to sire the next generation, any prospective sire must be good enuf to consider him excellent. There is no point in reproducing mediocre dogs; the intention of breeding is always to produce pups who are BETTER THAN their parents.
So there are always huge numbers of M dogs who are simply excess; they are not needed to breed, & in fact are not wanted to breed, as they are not excellent representatives of their breeds, or they have less than stellar temperaments.
Mere physical looks are not enuf; any dog of either sex needs to be screened for heritable issues, which isn’t cheap, plus they should earn some recognition by folks other than their doting owner’s that they are, indeed, excellent specimens, physically, mentally, emotionally stable, & in performance. It’s not just looks.
Good joints, eyes, skin, ears, open nostrils (not vertical slits), good teeth, & so on, are only the beginning. Only radiographs can reveal if his hips, knees, & elbows are good to excellent, & I would recommend Penn-HIP as the scoring process, not the BVA scheme (in the UK) nor the AKC version (in the U-S) which uses the OFA - Orthopedic Foundation for Animals.
Penn-HIP is scores dogs within their breeds, not compared to an “ideal sighthound skeleton” as OFA does, but GSD to GSD, Beagle to Beagle, etc. // ALL the dogs who are radiographer are kept on file, U cannot cherry-pick & decide not to record / file the x-rays of a dog with poor joints, so Penn-HIP is far more accurate in ratings, plus it tracks the breed’s ongoing joint quality, for better or worse.
Neither BVA nor OFA track breed statistics with any accuracy, as both are opt-in, & lousy rads are tossed in the trashcan, not filed.
Bulldogs have multiple heritable issues, which should all be screened for prior to even considering a dog as sire or dam material.
Cryptic gonads / retained testes are highly, highly heritable, so I would personally get him neutered, if he was mine. // Normal development has both testes in the scrotum by 6-WO, before they even leave their dam and littermates.
- terry
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I didn’t make up that statement from thin air, @Ssbd7 -You talk like a computer, it’s cool I will wait and see what happens.
Errrm...
There have been repeated retrospective studies done, around the world, that are quite conclusive.
Pediatric desex is safer for many reasons: less bleeding, less pain, fewer complications of all kinds, from minor to catastrophic.
Young pups fast briefly, are under GA for much shorter times, recover from both anaesthesia & surgery faster, & heal quicker than prepubertal pups, who in turn heal faster & have fewer complications than pubertal S/N patients, and traditional-age desex is in turn, safer than adult S/N surgery.
Don’t take my word for it, Google Schiolar is chock-full of research articles from peer-reviewed journals.
Here’s one example of search results:
Google Scholar+neutering+%2B+safety%2C+puppy&btnG=
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.I wish I hadn’t signed up to this form it’s so depressing, and probably full of puppy farms or nerds I’m now going to delete my profile, enjoy your sad lifeThis worries me. Do you realise that undescended testicles can cause serious and life limiting health problems? And British bulldogs already have an extremely short lifespan
Most especially, a possible sire for a breed that has a slew of health issues, including respiratory & joint problems, brachycephalic syndrome, cardiac & eye issues, & a short life expectancy. But I think that the “Olde” Brit Bulldog is a re-created breed, produced by outcrossing for desired traits, & also to avoid a foundation bottleneck?
