Chemical castration in dogs

[jimmybiscuit]

Hi Just looking for experience with this. My dogs have got on well, the past 6 weeks they have had the odd fight and it’s hard to stop, but they do. Then about ten days ago, one of my dogs decided to go after the other one as soon as he gets any attention, this would result in a fight. They were ok the following day but still on edge then within a few days fine again. Friday just gone it happened again, resulting in my finger being bitten separating them (small dogs) and all weekend we’ve had to be very careful, keep the problem on on a lead in the house and keep a close eye ok them when he is lose.
The weekend after the first bad day I got the one causing the problems chemically castrated in the hope this would help. Has anyone had this done before and got any positive stores?? I know it takes a while to work.
Thank you!!

Two males? If so they both need to be ‘neutered’ either chemically or fully. Are they related at all?

A neutered male will often attack an entire male as they seem to think the testosterone smells like aggression or some such.

My vet had us try chemical castration with our dog as a preview to full castration, to assess whether it changed him adversely ( he was a bit of a wimp and vet was keen not to induce fear reactivity).

It was fine, lasted a few months, thereafter he had the op.

Think you also need to check out ‘resource guarding’ which is what this sounds like. You may need a trainer of behaviourist to help you work through the issue.