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Dave Smith > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
>
> > Last time I had a dog come into heat prior to spaying, a neighborhood
> > stray dug into the yard, bred Misty, peed all over her and the front
> > porch! It was a royal mess.
>
> Our Bouvier came into heat shortly after we moved to this house. I had
> built a kennel for her and she spent most of the day in the kennel while
> she was in heat. We discovered that there were a lot of male dogs
> roaming around, and they spent a lot of their time hanging around our
> house. I didn't know whose dogs they were, but knowing what a male dogs
> can be like around a bitch in heat I used to take a shotgun with me when
> I took her back and forth to the kennel. Luckily I never had to use it
> and she was spayed shortly after that first heat.
>
> Friends on mine had a runted female Great Dane. She was normally a very
> well behaved dog, but she was a slut. Every time she was in heat she
> managed to sneak out of the house and have a tryst that ended up with a
> litter of big puppies. They didn't want to have her spayed but ended up
> doing it.

IMHO unless you are an actual breeder, it's irresponsible not to
spay/neuter. The cost of the surgery will more than be made up for if
you have to raise a litter.
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