Sterilizing your dog prevents certain cancers, reduces aggressive and marking behaviors, and stops unwanted litters. The video covers health benefits, aftercare, and common myths about the procedure.
Foreign I'm sure that if you're considering sterilizing your best friend, you must have many doubts about whether or not it will benefit their health. In this video, we're going to learn about these benefits and how it affects your best friend's health. One of the main benefits is that sterilization can prevent serious future illnesses. On the one hand, in the case of females, sterilization can prevent breast cancer, uterine cancer, and even uterine infections such as pyometra in females. And on the other hand, in the case of males, sterilization can prevent testicular cancer and prostate cancer. Sterilization can also help reduce aggressive behavior or marking in animals that are not sterilized. Sometimes, when this procedure has not been performed, animals may display marking behavior, territorial behavior, and behavior that suggests, I'm here and I want to keep reproducing. This can be dangerous, because if this happens, it can escape during walks, cause accidents, or even fight with other animals for that very reason, because it has to mark its territory due to the need to reproduce. Sterilization prevents this type of behavior. But I want to clarify that this does not mean that if you have an animal in your family that can be reactive and is not sterilized, it can be the solution. In other words, before deciding whether or not to sterilize it, it is advisable that if your dog is reactive, you go and ask for help from an ethologist, a canine behavior specialist, so that they can assess whether sterilization would really help in this case. In the case of females, sterilization also helps prevent unwanted litters, because, after all, the animal has that instinct to reproduce, and if they are in heat, they can run away from home with the intention of reproducing. As you may already know, there are many animals that do not have a home and do not have a family to take care of them. That's why sterilization helps reduce the number of unwanted litters and thus prevent and reduce abandonment. Another benefit of sterilization is that it will help the animal reduce the state of anxiety and nervousness that they have when they are in heat. Everyone who has a furry friend at home, our greatest desire is for them to stay with us as long as possible. Therefore, sterilization can help extend their life expectancy, since you are preventing possible very serious diseases and also giving them a better quality of life.
