From: MISPKB1@kentvm.kent.edu
Newsgroups: rec.pets.dogs
Subject: Re: Neutering to reduce aggression?
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:44:24 GMT
Organization: Kent State Univ.


   Jack, I wouldn't know about nuetering but I would yell
when he was trying to push one of the other hounds around.
Everyonce in a while I hear a growl in my home.  I don't
care who or why (Dobe has been known to drop rawhides on
sleeping Greyhound heads), I yell. My whole pack stops
and looks at me with 'whats the matter with her'.
 
   My Mother decided to let dogs choose their pecking
order in her home.  The old Shepher/Dobe mix was fine
with the Dobe puppy.  But when the Dobe was 3 yrs old
it got into a fight with the old dog over a mole and
nearly killed her.  My Mother had the Dobe put down
(a decision I disargreed with since mom was able to stop
the fight with voice only - Dobe would go to a home
with no other pets)  I think if she showed the Dobe
right away that trying to dominate the old dog wasn't
allowed this would never had happened.  She also allowed
the Dobe to push around my Dobe puppy when she was
caring for her for me.  My Dobe NEVER forgave her dog
and would become agressive toward it if she brought it
to my home.  My Dobe would offer a play bow to strange
Dobes.
 
good luck to you and Pacer.......... Pamela
In article <DEAN.92Oct15101040@wind.sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov>
dean@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Jack Dean) writes:
 
>
>I am currently fostering somewhat of an anomaly: a dominant aggressive
>male greyhound.  Pacer is a retired racing greyhound that was
>previously adopted.  He was returned to us after he attacked the
>family cat.  He first went to another foster home, where he attacked
>and injured another cat, and struck at the fosterer's dog (a rat
>terrier), although he was by this time muzzled.
>
>Since coming to my home, he has displayed a lot of dominance behavior
>towards Kojak, my male greyhound.  Behaviors include things like
>standing over Kojak, tail up, some growling and snapping, but no
>fights (so far).  He has pretty much left Patti, my female greyhound
>alone, and he has not displayed any dominance or aggression towards
>people.
>
>One of the unique things about Pacer is that the original adopters did
>not want to neuter him, so he has had a vasectomy instead of the
>normal castration.  So my question to the net is how much will
>castration reduce his dominant/aggressive tendencies, especially
>towards other dogs?  I not trying to eliminate his behavior towards
>cats and small dogs.  I am afraid that he probably was trained on live
>lures, and is pretty much ruined for small animals to the point that
>he could never be completely trusted.  I will make sure that he goes
>into a home that doesn't have other small (lure sized) dogs or cats.
>And I will make sure that they know his history.
>
>So what would you do?  Leave it alone and let the hounds work out
>their own pack order, or forestall a potential problem and fight and
>neuter the dog?  Would you neuter him right away, or wait and see who
>is going to adopt him and offer to neuter him for the new adopters if
>they want?  Discussion invited.
>
>
>
>--
>Jack Dean                         dean@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
>
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