We have had our rottie castrated,for a number of reasons,as we have a puppy bitch rottie too,and as we just want them for pets we dont want any puppys! Also as he is great with our puppy,he gets a little silly with other dogs,he acts like he wants to savage other dogs but when up and close he only plays with them.Now he has been done(walking around with a lampshade on his neck,which is very battered as he walks into everything with it on!)does anybody think it does calm them down? he was also trying to bonk everything in sight before,which should stop now,but im hoping he will be a little more socialable with other dogs,just wondered if people have seen a change in there pet after having this done.

We had Timba done mainly because he lives with Ellie and she hadn't been spayed, he's always wanted to go up to other dogs but he's so big people just assume he wants to attack them which he never has done,and he gets quite giddy so I dont let him go running up to other dogs anymore, but in answer to your question it hasn't made the slightest difference to his nature.

We have had our rottie castrated,for a number of reasons,as we have a puppy bitch rottie too,and as we just want them for pets we dont want any puppys! Also as he is great with our puppy,he gets a little silly with other dogs,he acts like he wants to savage other dogs but when up and close he only plays with them.Now he has been done(walking around with a lampshade on his neck,which is very battered as he walks into everything with it on!)does anybody think it does calm them down? he was also trying to bonk everything in sight before,which should stop now,but im hoping he will be a little more socialable with other dogs,just wondered if people have seen a change in there pet after having this done.

We had our Roscoe done just after Christmas because it was a condition of adopting him from Afghan Hound Rescue. The only things that have changed about him is him not feeling the need to leave fifty bajillion 'wee mails' every time we go out (we can actually walk now instead of stopping every few yards) and losing the urge to bonk things!

The vet said it could take months for his hormones to calm down though so it's early days yet.

We had our lively staffie done, and he still wants to play with every dog he sees, but at least he can't go an get another pooch in the family way!

When ours was a pup the vet told us to have ours done early before he gets chance to pick up certain types of behaviour, once he as learnt behaviour I don’t thing having him done will make any difference.

I asked my vet at Rockys last boosters because hes crazy!! Hes a jack russel x westie and NEVER stops!! The vet said it wouldnt help now. It wouldnt calm him down or change him at all because he was too old. Hes 3 tomorrow! (Happy Birthday Rox!:P) To help it change a dogs behavour it has to be done when there pups.

MY EXPERIANCE is that it sometimes changes the dogs behaviour, some it doesnt , both my dogs are done & it made no differance to them at all but have heard off others that have calmed down, good thing is they cant be blamed for unwanted puppies

I think if your expecting major personality changes that will not happen, neutering tends to help with things like wandering, mounting behaviour, marking,sometimes fighting, but I guess it depends on why they fight.

As Malky said a lot of behaviour is leaned and then needs to be trained out, but you can use the castration as a tool to help with that, I find the main thing to help with a dogs behaviour is training and age.

All of my boys (apart from deserter Rupert) have been done at slightly different ages for different reasons. Wilbur was done bang on 6 months old because he started to show radical changes in his behaviour, and ended up snapping at me whenever I asked him to "do" anything, sit, stay etc. The change in W behavour after the op was immediate.
Zak was done at around 8 months old. Prior to this time he was the most affectionate dog I have ever known but he suddenly decided to bite first and ask questions later if he could be bothered, he drew blood on me and my mum 2 days apart from each incident for no provocation so was done, his attitude has changed but he will still fly into rages for seemingly no reason.
Archie came to me at 9 months old and, to begin with everything between him and the others was rosy, Zak would even play with him. Then after about a month Zak started to fight with Archie really fight, not just teeth and noise handbags at dawn kind of thing, I have scars from when I have badly misjudged the time to separate them. Zak always starts the fights. I had Arch castrated 2 days before Christmas, now he acts totally submissively to Zak (who is my top dog) even going "belly up" in front of him. Now they are back to being happy campers and playing as I type, its rough play, they are terriers and EV is trying to bully them into playing with her (she is tiny and only weighs 4kgs) and Archie is bouncing off the sofa to avoid her and keep with Zak and Daisy and Wilbur are sat next to me chinning at the "idiots" but I have happy muttleys again. During the time Arch was entire, the whole dynamic of my group changed and I had no happy dogs.

I had mine done (he was 2 and half) because he had started being aggressive to other entire males. The castration seems to have sorted this problem out but now he is not thinking about girls all the time he has started to regress. I got him when he was 10 months old and he never chewed anything, oh except leads. Until he had the op, now shoes, books, coat hangers anything is fair game if I leave it in his reach!! He also plays a lot more now. So I have a 5 stone dogue de bordeaux tearing round the house like lune most evenings. Its only been 2 months since he has was done (apparantly it takes up to 6 months for all the hormones to get out of their system) so I am waiting for the toilet training to go out of the window next!!!
On the plus side (yes there is one) he is more relaxed, he listens to me more when we are out, tends to now ignore other dogs completely, prefering me and his ball and is far less dominant. Personally I am glad I had it done (though felt terrible on the night I picked him up as he cried like a baby for 6 hours!!) as he seems happier but I can't say its calmed his puppish behaviour down, but he will grow up one day!!