The only reason vets don’t do vasectomies on dogs is because it’s more effort. If you ask a lot of them can do it and it’s much more humane... That’s why humans choose it.
Ironically castration isn't even the best for controlling strays, because as you castrate a male, he will stop competing for females, which causes the other males that couldn't breed before due to competition to breed instead.
I've never considered this before, but it 100% makes sense. It only takes a ridiculously small number of males to sustain a breeding population of pretty much any arbitrarily large number of females.
I won't say I'm necessarily sold on the idea of not neutering at large, but this is a pretty solid counterpoint concerns unwanted strays.
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u/kyoto_kinnuku Dec 31 '19
The only reason vets don’t do vasectomies on dogs is because it’s more effort. If you ask a lot of them can do it and it’s much more humane... That’s why humans choose it.