Why is it advisable to neuter dogs

Perhaps one of the questions most people ask is what is the relationship between castration and incidents or accidents involving dogs. In the last 13 years there were 88 deaths from fatal accidents involving dogs and half of them in the last 5 years.

So, obviously Argentina has an underlying problem with the dog on the loose, and that is what castration is related to. The dog is loose because there is an unwanted procreation and that unwanted procreation has to do with:

First, a cultural issue. A lot of people don't want to castrate the male dog.

It's only 5%. In national, provincial and municipal programs throughout the country, 5% of its animals are only males and 95% are females because it has to do with machismo. The testicles are jewels of the family in Latin American homes, those of the dog too.

So the first thing is to realize that castration prevents unwanted procreation.

Second, an attitudinal change

Dogs don't walk alone. They walk with the guardian, with us with a collar and a leash and a bag to collect the fecal matter, because the fecal matter belongs to the dog when it is inside the dog and belongs to the guardian's responsibility when the dog leaves.

So all this has to be complemented by a change of attitude, culture, but also of the municipal government of the day, the Provincial Government, the National Government that supports mass, free, systematic castration, carried out absolutely permanently over time and not as if it were a conduct spasmodic.

Mass castration, education for attitudinal change, will prevent the 88 deaths we had that there were no number 89.

*Prof. Dr. Juan Enrique Romero @drromerook is a veterinary physician. Specialist in University Education. Master's Degree in Psychoimmunoneuroendocrinology. Former Director of the Small Animal School Hospital (UNLPAM). University Professor at several Argentine universities. International lecturer.

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