Can Neuter Dogs Have Sex?

[Smithson]

Is this possible? We have two young dogs, both about 8 months. The male is neutered, we were about to get the female spayed, but she went into heat. Today my wife discovered the two of them 'at it', they appeared stuck together, although when she called them they easily separated.

Any idea what's going on?

[Nienke]

Yes, spayed and neutered dogs sometimes still can tie up, although rare.

Knew a 9 year old female, spayed for years, who was still attractive to males. Sounds pretty scary to me, though.

And know of an 8 or so year old neutered male that normally had no interest in females in heat, except that one time where he also managed to tie up.

I assume Bambina can put more light on this.

Nienke

[cmsally]

There is a dog near to us which was spayed about 2 years ago and regularly goes into heat. The owners were wondering the same thing - why should this happen?

[Nienke]

If I've understood it well, a female where only the uterus has been taken out but the ovaries hasn't can still go in heat but won't get pregnant.

Nienke

[elfe]

all my male dogs are neutered but not all females. if a female gets on heat almost all males want to get on her, even little fights occur but nothing serious. even the male was neuterd at about 6 months when i usually let it be done and many years ago, they still want to do 'it'. funny that some males are only interested in certain females if on heat. they all can get 'stuck' and it is lots of noise with them screaming sometimes... all female neutered dogs here have no interest in sex and are not interesting for male dogs.

[Sheryl]

Nienke is right. Proper spaying of female dogs and cats involves removal of both uterus and ovaries and thus ends the heat cycles. However some Thai vets, especially in rural areas, only remove the uterus, resulting in an animal who continually goes into heat altho she won't get pregnant. BNot sure about dogs but cats suffer extremely in this situation and may even die. Not to mention the suffering of their owners, as anyone who has tried to live with a cat in heat will attest.

Properly spayed females will have no interest in sex because they won't go into heat; females with only the uterus removed on the other hand will still go into heat and seek sex but get no relief from it.

Male dogs and cats, if they had discovered sex before neutering, may continue it from time to time buit of course with much reduced frequency as lower hormone levels mean lowered urge. But I think dogs at least still experience pleasurable genital sensations and so may do it for that reason. My niece's Pomerian started masturbating with her stuffed teddy bear at any early age and still occasionally does even now that he is neutered. Grosses my niece out a bit but the teddy bear doesn't seem to mind....

[neion2000]

Properly spayed females will have no interest in sex because they won't go into heat; females with only the uterus removed on the other hand will still go into heat and seek sex but get no relief from it.

Male dogs and cats, if they had discovered sex before neutering, may continue it from time to time buit of course with much reduced frequency as lower hormone levels mean lowered urge. But I think dogs at least still experience pleasurable genital sensations and so may do it for that reason.

I went to visit my daughter at my Ex's - sisters house.. they had a pitt bull, he was like 14 years old, up there in age, and had been fixed... His health had been going south, so the doctor prescribe him some type of dog steroid.. He was the only pet in the family and I had tossed him a tennis ball to play with, the next think I know, he's trying to hump my leg.. I did not check if he had a boner or anything like that, just in case someone asks.... I just figured it was the same for dogs as for humans with a vasectomy, even at an older age or having work done to stop have off springs, was still able to PTP..

[bina]

sexual behavior is learned behavior, especially if dogs have have experienced sexual behavior they still remember it, also, if like in horses, its important to get all the stem of the testes out or else hormonal affects still occur...

i have now done a whole lot of spays and neuters (mostly cats) and this vet does a really cool thing: the cat is given her knock out shot, the vet makes a small incision on her side after parting her hair with a comb, removes her ovaries using plastic thingies to close off the connections first, then he sews it with a few stitches of self disintegrating threads, flips her over, does the other side. no shaven fur spots, no fuss, no muss, the cat is in and out same day, she wakes up really fast (its about 10 minutes on a good day, for the whole operation, so they are already on the edge of waking up, so less harmful after affects), no pain, no muss and almost no openings to get infected.

have done some with kittens in the the ovarian sacks, and then the spay was a full hysterectomy also, abdominal.

dog testes is harder as they really dont want to come out of their sack...

canine masturbation is often a dominance thing and not a sexual thing, especially if it is on people, or on toys of certain people; or if the dog has 'issues' this is a release mechanism (sterotype behavior)... which can be taught to be stopped (not by yelling, but by stopping behavior before it starts up, and /or dominance exercises.) after all, thats what male dogs do when they are young: they ride eachother to prove their strenghth or until the stronger or more dominant one 'yells' at the the 'rider'... my daughter learned to growl/snap at our lhasa which was riding her leg and her toys constantly. problem went away.

bina