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- Dog crossing, is it necessary or not?
- Castration prevents health problems
- Crossing can be a traumatic experience.
- responsibility first
If you like puppies, you will surely be delighted with the image of a litter of puppies, and even more so if the puppies are with their mother and are being breastfed, of course to any dog lover this image can seem like one of the things tenderest than you can live, if only as a mere spectator.
Letting ourselves be carried away by this tender image or often believing that it is necessary and beneficial for our dog to cross it to reproduce, we end up with a litter of puppies at home. But this is something that needs great responsibility and reflection.
Do I have to breed a dog? Does this have any kind of benefit for him? What should be taken into account? We will address these and other questions in this PeritoAnimal article.
Dog crossing, is it necessary or not?
When we talk about breeding a dog we are talking about joining a male and a female to reproduce and have offspring.
We humans believe that it is necessary for puppies to reproduce in order to have full emotional development and feel their full life cycle, however, this is merely a human perception since puppies have no idea about the reproductive meaning of their lives.
Dogs can have a completely normal development without reproducing, likewise, you should know that breeding a dog does not improve your health.
Castration prevents health problems
Just as crossing a dog does not have a beneficial impact on its health, neutering is an appropriate measure to improve its quality of life:
- In bitches it prevents pyometra and reduces the risk of presenting breast tumors, vaginal problems and ovarian tumors.
- By neutering a male puppy, prostate problems (abscesses, cysts, enlargement) are avoided and the risk of hormone-dependent tumors is reduced.
Neutering involves some risks, but these are minimal and are those associated with any other type of surgical intervention. Furthermore, performed on young dogs is a very safe practice.
Crossing can be a traumatic experience.
Sometimes when our pet is a bitch, we want to cross it to be able to observe the miracle of life in our own home, which makes a lot of sense when there are also children at home, as it can be a wonderful and educational experience as few.
But you must be very careful, because despite this experience can be wonderful, it can also be traumatic, since during the birth of the bitch many problems can arise, the bitch can become stressed and sacrifice the puppies considering that they will be born in a hostile environment.
Imagine that the experience was negative? This would be fatal for the bitch and also for the little ones at home.
responsibility first
Two owners decide to breed their dogs because every human family wants to have a new puppy in their house, but little bitches usually do. litters of between 3 and 5 puppies, and the big bitches of between 7 to 9. Therefore, before deciding whether or not to breed your puppy, you should consider the following:
- It is very difficult to ensure that each of the puppies will be adopted in a home where they are provided with all the care they need.
- You should not only take into account the offspring of your puppy, but the future offspring of your litter, since a female dog and her future offspring can produce up to 67,000 dogs in 5 years.
- If in the end you get each puppy to get a good home, you should know that these families' chances of adopting other dogs that are in animal refuges are diminished.
- The fact that the puppies are of a certain breed does not guarantee that they will end up in good hands, since 25% of the puppies that remain in refuges and shelters are purebred dogs.
So, in addition to not needing to cross your puppy, this is not a recommended practice since increases animal abandonment.
