Intact male dogs.
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Honestly Traveler is pretty normal to me. He marks outside a lot but not much more than my old neutered Border Collie.
He's not a humper at all. Like, ever. Only really small dogs and typically he tries to get them to hump him. And he does like to pee on them but I think that has more to do with his fetish for them than his balls.
He does taste urine and teeth chatter/drool at it which I think is probably my biggest peeve. He's fond of sticking his nose up Kaylee's hoo ha.
He does seem to draw attention from other dogs because of his intactness. He gets humped all the time, dogs try and pick fights with him and many just seem outright confused by it.
He's also a little stiff legged when meeting other intact males but that's calmed down a lot more he's been around and more mature he's gotten.
He's also very manly looking, stays in shape awesome and has great muscle tone. Testosterone for the win!
Honestly Traveler is pretty normal to me. He marks outside a lot but not much more than my old neutered Border Collie.
He's not a humper at all. Like, ever. Only really small dogs and typically he tries to get them to hump him. And he does like to pee on them but I think that has more to do with his fetish for them than his balls.
He does taste urine and teeth chatter/drool at it which I think is probably my biggest peeve. He's fond of sticking his nose up Kaylee's hoo ha.
He does seem to draw attention from other dogs because of his intactness. He gets humped all the time, dogs try and pick fights with him and many just seem outright confused by it.
He's also a little stiff legged when meeting other intact males but that's calmed down a lot more he's been around and more mature he's gotten.
He's also very manly looking, stays in shape awesome and has great muscle tone. Testosterone for the win!
Backup doesn't mark inappropriately but it is something we constantly monitor, especially with bitches in season like today at the barn hunt I was more concerned about him marking in the ring than I might be with a neutered male (fun fact though, marking is actually very natural while hunting).
He's not an inappropriate humper but honestly he doesn't like to touch other dogs much so that can be hard to judge.
He's leaner, easier to keep this way, than he would likely be if he was neutered. He's also a hard keeper, in that sense but a lot of it can be being a hyper active lemur. When Sloan is in heat he sometimes completely refuses food.
Beyond being a bit harder to keep from obsessing on smells, which is an uphill training issue but not unmanageable, the only thing I find is he smells. He smells worse than other dogs just like the other intact males I've spent time with. They always have a slight odor about them (bitches get an odor while in heat) so, yeah, he gets more baths than the other kids.
He's not an inappropriate humper but honestly he doesn't like to touch other dogs much so that can be hard to judge.
He's leaner, easier to keep this way, than he would likely be if he was neutered. He's also a hard keeper, in that sense but a lot of it can be being a hyper active lemur. When Sloan is in heat he sometimes completely refuses food.
Beyond being a bit harder to keep from obsessing on smells, which is an uphill training issue but not unmanageable, the only thing I find is he smells. He smells worse than other dogs just like the other intact males I've spent time with. They always have a slight odor about them (bitches get an odor while in heat) so, yeah, he gets more baths than the other kids.
Merlin is about 10 months old and intact.
No real difference yet lol he lifts his leg (sometimes), pees on his front feet (because he's a moron), gets really distracted around girls in heat (ugh..), and is generally the same happy goobery boy.
When I visited the breeders home, there were intact males and honestly they were awesome! Marking was nipped in the butt before it got the chance as was other silly boy behaviors. They have jobs, work and train well, honestly I didn't see much of a difference.
A lot of the UGHHH behavior now with Merlin is to do with his age lol hormones, he's young.. but I expect everything else to kind of even out. People tell me it gets A LOT of better around 1 year.
No real difference yet lol he lifts his leg (sometimes), pees on his front feet (because he's a moron), gets really distracted around girls in heat (ugh..), and is generally the same happy goobery boy.
When I visited the breeders home, there were intact males and honestly they were awesome! Marking was nipped in the butt before it got the chance as was other silly boy behaviors. They have jobs, work and train well, honestly I didn't see much of a difference.
A lot of the UGHHH behavior now with Merlin is to do with his age lol hormones, he's young.. but I expect everything else to kind of even out. People tell me it gets A LOT of better around 1 year.
Roman is my first intact male dog. He's not really aggressive or territorial or anything. He doesn't hump much, the only dog I can remember him humping was a Berner, who he would literally hump for hours.
He is super extra entranced by other dogs' genitals and their pee. His penis is out probably 25-35% of the time he's sitting, which is kinda nasty and ruins so many photos (why can't it be a more subtle color??).
That's about it.
He is super extra entranced by other dogs' genitals and their pee. His penis is out probably 25-35% of the time he's sitting, which is kinda nasty and ruins so many photos (why can't it be a more subtle color??).
That's about it.
All of ours have been pretty much the same as neutered dogs. Our GSD was dog aggressive but I don't think that had anything to do with being intact. Bernard is intact and totally chill and laid back. He was never a problem even when the girls were in heat. Trey was also intact while Nikki was in heat and wasn't a pain.
The only issue we had was beau. He marked like crazy and humped everything. He was a brat around the girls when they were hormonal. The marking ended up making us decide to neuter him. It helped tremendously with the obnoxious marking indoors and humping. We'd tried everything before finally deciding to neuter.
The only issue we had was beau. He marked like crazy and humped everything. He was a brat around the girls when they were hormonal. The marking ended up making us decide to neuter him. It helped tremendously with the obnoxious marking indoors and humping. We'd tried everything before finally deciding to neuter.
Steve was intact until he was 19 months and he was obnoxious about it. He was a leg-lifter and got in pissing wars with (neutered) Mushroom in my house. I was not amused. He'd mark in stores, etc. That went away after I got him neutered. Other than that, I haven't noticed any change in him other than it's easier to keep weight on him, though that could, too, be a product of age.
Bean is 13 months and I forget that he's intact because he's so friendly, polite, doesn't mark inappropriately, and doesn't let his business hang out. He does sniff/lick/chatter sometimes, and he has a male odor (especially his urine) but otherwise he doesn't scream Intact Male Dog the way some do. At this point I have no plans to neuter him.
Bean is 13 months and I forget that he's intact because he's so friendly, polite, doesn't mark inappropriately, and doesn't let his business hang out. He does sniff/lick/chatter sometimes, and he has a male odor (especially his urine) but otherwise he doesn't scream Intact Male Dog the way some do. At this point I have no plans to neuter him.
Sometimes behaviour will be dog dependent as well. I've been around some very obnoxious intact dogs regardless of experienced owners, and very pleasant, normal intact dogs.
Ripley is neutered now, but he was intact until 20mths old.
The only behaviours that changed when I neutered Ripley were the following:
- He no longer felt compelled to constantly sniff my girls (spayed or intact, didn't matter) and urine taste. I hated that SO much. He still does it sometimes, but not nearly as often.
- His marking outside decreased considerably. He still does it just because when he's walking off leash, but it's not all he thinks about.
- He never tried to mark inside his breeder's house again (granted, he got a warning to not ever do it again the time he did, but pre-neuter I could still see him think about it and post-neuter he never thought of it again)
- He could play and just enjoy playing without getting over excited and humpy. He wasn't normally humpy, but excitement/play would bring it out of him.
I didn't let him get away with bratty hormone boy behaviours even prior to neutering, but neutering totally eliminated my need to remind him to use his brain/manners as far as hormones were concerned.
I am sure that even the behaviours he did exhibit would have lessened with more time and training on my part had I kept him intact. The reason I neutered him was because he starved himself and looked like a skeleton and I couldn't get or keep weight on him for anything. Finally I'd had enough and on the advice of his breeder, neutered him.
ETA: Yes, he had an odour too. Not overly strong, but different than my other dogs and neutered boys. And his urine smelled stronger when intact as well.
Ripley is neutered now, but he was intact until 20mths old.
The only behaviours that changed when I neutered Ripley were the following:
- He no longer felt compelled to constantly sniff my girls (spayed or intact, didn't matter) and urine taste. I hated that SO much. He still does it sometimes, but not nearly as often.
- His marking outside decreased considerably. He still does it just because when he's walking off leash, but it's not all he thinks about.
- He never tried to mark inside his breeder's house again (granted, he got a warning to not ever do it again the time he did, but pre-neuter I could still see him think about it and post-neuter he never thought of it again)
- He could play and just enjoy playing without getting over excited and humpy. He wasn't normally humpy, but excitement/play would bring it out of him.
I didn't let him get away with bratty hormone boy behaviours even prior to neutering, but neutering totally eliminated my need to remind him to use his brain/manners as far as hormones were concerned.
I am sure that even the behaviours he did exhibit would have lessened with more time and training on my part had I kept him intact. The reason I neutered him was because he starved himself and looked like a skeleton and I couldn't get or keep weight on him for anything. Finally I'd had enough and on the advice of his breeder, neutered him.
ETA: Yes, he had an odour too. Not overly strong, but different than my other dogs and neutered boys. And his urine smelled stronger when intact as well.
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Yes, I forgot to mention that the only unpleasant thing was the intact male urine smell. Since he peed outside it wasn't a huge deal, but if he peed in an area by the front door, we would have to hose it down or it was unpleasant. he himself did not smell unless he somehow got pee on himself, then we would bathe him.
Payton had a Jerkface Phase when he approached two but he has grown out of that. It was probably a full month of really jerky behaviour over various things to various dogs/people and every day of that phase I threatened to chop his balls off at least once. But we are thankfully past it.
He had one episode of marking in the house, but he was marking a leather chair that my dad's friend (who owns a hauling company) gave us, so we can't be sure it wasn't motivated by a "HEY some other dog totally peed on this once!" type of thing. He did it twice then never again. Luckily it was leather so easy to clean. He marked over another dog's pee at PetSmart once as a puppy but has never done it since, not even during Jerkface Phase.
He chatters with intact bitches but only intact bitches. Also he just has to pee EVERYWHERE when he's outside and somebody else has peed. PEPPER IS PEEING I MUST RUN OVER THERE AND PEE. HENRI (who is neutered) JUST PEED LET ME PEE OVER THAT. The only one he doesn't do this with is Auggie and I don't really know why. Maybe because Auggie always pees for like an hour and that's sooooo boring.
When the girls are in heat he is INSANELY annoying. He can't settle down, he walks around the house singing his song of woe. He has not been around in season girlies outside of the house so I'm not sure what he would do. But he is a total failure at flirting anyway. Auggie (Mr. No Testicles? No Problem!) is a notorious flirt and ALL the bitches love Auggie, but Payton flings himself around on the ground crying and begging them to play and they think he's stupid because he is. It's crazy annoying BUT it's only for a few weeks twice a year, so... meh. It's also kinda convenient though because I can kind of count on him to tell me when somebody might be coming in LOL. Like he's been really interested in trying to play with Pepper the last couple days... I thought we had another month before her next season but I'm watching her because Payton says so LOL.
(This would totally be solved if I were allowed to alter Pepper but oh well!)
He has never been a Humpy McHumperson, even when the girls are in season he doesn't seem to know he should be trying to hump them. Auggie (again, Mr. No Testicles? NO PROBLEM!) is the humpy one, he'll hump air. *facepalm* The most Payton will do is paw at their back ends. Poor dumb Payton LOL.
The worst part of it, for me, really is that other dogs don't seem to like him because he's intact. Dogs (never bitches, at least not yet) randomly try to pick fights for no reason. And Payton is the kind of dog who will fight back if somebody starts something. He's not a dog park candidate anymore (I never got around to taking him anyway) for this reason. I just can't predict how any given dog might react. It bums me out because P likes other dogs...
He had one episode of marking in the house, but he was marking a leather chair that my dad's friend (who owns a hauling company) gave us, so we can't be sure it wasn't motivated by a "HEY some other dog totally peed on this once!" type of thing. He did it twice then never again. Luckily it was leather so easy to clean. He marked over another dog's pee at PetSmart once as a puppy but has never done it since, not even during Jerkface Phase.
He chatters with intact bitches but only intact bitches. Also he just has to pee EVERYWHERE when he's outside and somebody else has peed. PEPPER IS PEEING I MUST RUN OVER THERE AND PEE. HENRI (who is neutered) JUST PEED LET ME PEE OVER THAT. The only one he doesn't do this with is Auggie and I don't really know why. Maybe because Auggie always pees for like an hour and that's sooooo boring.
When the girls are in heat he is INSANELY annoying. He can't settle down, he walks around the house singing his song of woe. He has not been around in season girlies outside of the house so I'm not sure what he would do. But he is a total failure at flirting anyway. Auggie (Mr. No Testicles? No Problem!) is a notorious flirt and ALL the bitches love Auggie, but Payton flings himself around on the ground crying and begging them to play and they think he's stupid because he is. It's crazy annoying BUT it's only for a few weeks twice a year, so... meh. It's also kinda convenient though because I can kind of count on him to tell me when somebody might be coming in LOL. Like he's been really interested in trying to play with Pepper the last couple days... I thought we had another month before her next season but I'm watching her because Payton says so LOL.
(This would totally be solved if I were allowed to alter Pepper but oh well!)
He has never been a Humpy McHumperson, even when the girls are in season he doesn't seem to know he should be trying to hump them. Auggie (again, Mr. No Testicles? NO PROBLEM!) is the humpy one, he'll hump air. *facepalm* The most Payton will do is paw at their back ends. Poor dumb Payton LOL.
The worst part of it, for me, really is that other dogs don't seem to like him because he's intact. Dogs (never bitches, at least not yet) randomly try to pick fights for no reason. And Payton is the kind of dog who will fight back if somebody starts something. He's not a dog park candidate anymore (I never got around to taking him anyway) for this reason. I just can't predict how any given dog might react. It bums me out because P likes other dogs...
Pirate may be the easiest intact male ever. He doesn't mark inappropriately (only outside, and not any more than most neutered dogs, honestly). He does get kind of humpy with other dogs, but any dog can do that. He's not at all dog aggressive. He does get a bit distracted by bitch scent, but he's perfectly capable of working around it, if it's a task he is well trained in.
I don't anticipate ever neutering him. He doesn't really give me a need to.
I will say the one thing he did for awhile that was inappropriate was that he peed on my bed, 2 or 3 times. He'd do that, be banished from my bedroom for a long time, then I'd let him back in, just when I thought it was okay, he'd pee on my bed again. It's been awhile, though, he does have bedroom privileges again, and I think he's over that issue.
I don't anticipate ever neutering him. He doesn't really give me a need to.
I will say the one thing he did for awhile that was inappropriate was that he peed on my bed, 2 or 3 times. He'd do that, be banished from my bedroom for a long time, then I'd let him back in, just when I thought it was okay, he'd pee on my bed again. It's been awhile, though, he does have bedroom privileges again, and I think he's over that issue.
Logan's...not much different from any other male dog? He sniffs and tastes peee, but so does Gavroche (who is neutered). He shoved his nose up Indy's butt when they met (she was in heat), but I guarantee you Gavroche would have, too. After they met, though, he was pretty good and did well with an intact bitch walking next to him. It took a lot of work to teach him NOT to mark because he had already decided to mark before I got him. The training was worth it, and it's no longer an issue. He's not aggressive, he doesn't roam, he doesn't hump, he has never made babies, he's just...a dog. Use common sense and everything should be fine!
Yep, this for me too. Trent's 4 years old and still intact, first one I've ever had (first dog, first male, first intact animal).
He does mark outside a lot, but if I just want to keep walking he won't insist on stopping to sniff and mark every single spot. Same goes for licking random spots that I'm assuming other dogs have peed on, although my neighbor's neutered male is much worse with this. That dog will pee, turn around, and then be like "oh! What is this? I must lick this pee spot that I've just discovered!". Trent only seems to do this at a couple of specific spots along our route, and is otherwise disinterested in pee spots.
We've never had a problem with him trying to mark indoors, except for once at Petsmart when he was younger and tried to pee over a mess another dog left.
Oh, and yeah there's the terrible smell. That's definitely a thing.
He IS a humper, but that's a problem he's had since he was 3 months old and I'm not sure neutering would help.
He's dog reactive as well, and the one dog that really sets him off like no other is a neighbor's intact 5 or 6 year old male Lab. I decided he must have an aversion to other intact males his size based on that one other dog, but sometime last year he met up with an intact 90 lb Pit Bull and was just fine with him. I know a lot of it is residual behavior from a really reactive phase he went through as an adolescent, and wish I managed him better then. Definitely could have prevented many of the issues.
He's been in the same vicinity as a few in heat females and didn't lose his mind, but we definitely did not get too close.
It also took him from this
to this
so I fully agree with this here^
This is an intact dog thing?? Oh man, maybe I do have a good reason to chop off his balls!
All I can say is thank god for Photoshop.
He does mark outside a lot, but if I just want to keep walking he won't insist on stopping to sniff and mark every single spot. Same goes for licking random spots that I'm assuming other dogs have peed on, although my neighbor's neutered male is much worse with this. That dog will pee, turn around, and then be like "oh! What is this? I must lick this pee spot that I've just discovered!". Trent only seems to do this at a couple of specific spots along our route, and is otherwise disinterested in pee spots.
We've never had a problem with him trying to mark indoors, except for once at Petsmart when he was younger and tried to pee over a mess another dog left.
Oh, and yeah there's the terrible smell. That's definitely a thing.
He IS a humper, but that's a problem he's had since he was 3 months old and I'm not sure neutering would help.
He's dog reactive as well, and the one dog that really sets him off like no other is a neighbor's intact 5 or 6 year old male Lab. I decided he must have an aversion to other intact males his size based on that one other dog, but sometime last year he met up with an intact 90 lb Pit Bull and was just fine with him. I know a lot of it is residual behavior from a really reactive phase he went through as an adolescent, and wish I managed him better then. Definitely could have prevented many of the issues.
He's been in the same vicinity as a few in heat females and didn't lose his mind, but we definitely did not get too close.
It also took him from this
to this
so I fully agree with this here^
This is an intact dog thing?? Oh man, maybe I do have a good reason to chop off his balls!
All I can say is thank god for Photoshop.
This is an intact dog thing?? Oh man, maybe I do have a good reason to chop off his balls!
I dunno, is it?? I've never seen a dog with his dong out as often as Roman has his out, and all the other males I know are neutered so I just assumed some cause and effect there. That's the only issue that's tempted me to neuter him, in a last ditch attempt to get a nice picture of him sitting. Didn't know you had that problem with Trent. He looks too dignified to show lipstick to the camera.
If I want to get a good picture of him without his lipstick making a cameo, I ask him to "lie down", and then immediately "sit" back up. It usually gets rid of it, even if it's only for a moment. An easy though very temporary alternative to balls chopping!
He's the only dog I've known in person with this problem, but I do remember it being brought up a few times before by people with neutered dogs. I can definitely see it being an intact dog problem though, because it certainly makes sense. But the great thing about being on a dog forum is that when people notice, it's usually acknowledged with an understanding "I feel you bro. I've got a lipstick flasher here, too."
Fred = 1st male and 1st intact.
He is 10.5 months, still a baby!
He's not a humper. He did it a couple of times when he was small, but never since. He's not dog aggressive to date. In fact he is veeeeeeerry interested in other dogs, and does seem more keen on bitches. Not that males aren't interesting to him.
He doesn't mark yet. But he sniffs EVERYTHING. He lives to sniff. I think this could be as much breed trait though as it is gender.
He pisses on himself 99.9% of the time. I thought it might stop as he got bigger... No.
He can smell more doggy, and his **** is very yellow and strong smelling, even though he has free access to water...
His balls are huuuuuuuge, but think its just him!!!! And he rarely sticks his piddin out thank god.
He likes to lick Bodhis bits, and the hussy lets him.
Over all though, day to day, he's just a dog.
He is 10.5 months, still a baby!
He's not a humper. He did it a couple of times when he was small, but never since. He's not dog aggressive to date. In fact he is veeeeeeerry interested in other dogs, and does seem more keen on bitches. Not that males aren't interesting to him.
He doesn't mark yet. But he sniffs EVERYTHING. He lives to sniff. I think this could be as much breed trait though as it is gender.
He pisses on himself 99.9% of the time. I thought it might stop as he got bigger... No.
He can smell more doggy, and his **** is very yellow and strong smelling, even though he has free access to water...
His balls are huuuuuuuge, but think its just him!!!! And he rarely sticks his piddin out thank god.
He likes to lick Bodhis bits, and the hussy lets him.
Over all though, day to day, he's just a dog.
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