I'd like to see more options like vasectomies open to dog owners, but I think they would generally be a bad idea in rescues. Most people can barely train dogs as it is. Yes, absolutely, one can train around hormones. People prove it all the time. But the average person is going to have the dog mark in the house, and return it for "not being able to be housebroken", or have their dog getting distracted by scents and taking off or just ignoring them, and get frustrated and decide to return them. It may be a sad fact that most people can't/won't work around those issues, but it does remain a fact. People here are not the average owner, for the most part.
I got lucky with Gusto and was able to do as I liked as far as neutering him, because I knew the rescuer. I know some rescues who will make exceptions for dogs going into sport homes where they know the adopter. I will have avenues available to me for future rescue dogs - although since I never want a puppy again, and most dogs come into rescue intact, it may never be an issue for me!
Does ABCA still allow dogs to be cross registered into AKC? I know the Canadian border collie club doesn't anymore - or AKC doesn't allow it. I'm not sure which made that decision. But my friend, who got her older BC into AKC intact wound up having to neuter her younger one and ILP him, since the studbook had closed or the rules changed or something.
I got lucky with Gusto and was able to do as I liked as far as neutering him, because I knew the rescuer. I know some rescues who will make exceptions for dogs going into sport homes where they know the adopter. I will have avenues available to me for future rescue dogs - although since I never want a puppy again, and most dogs come into rescue intact, it may never be an issue for me!
Does ABCA still allow dogs to be cross registered into AKC? I know the Canadian border collie club doesn't anymore - or AKC doesn't allow it. I'm not sure which made that decision. But my friend, who got her older BC into AKC intact wound up having to neuter her younger one and ILP him, since the studbook had closed or the rules changed or something.