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Eight hundred seventy nine clients of 49 animal hospitals in Seoul responded to the questionares. The survey questions were designed to evaluate the proportions of dogs that are neutered, the effects of neutering in male dogs on roaming, aggression, urine marking and mounting as a result of the age ...

Eight hundred seventy nine clients of 49 animal hospitals in Seoul responded to the questionares. The survey questions were designed to evaluate the proportions of dogs that are neutered, the effects of neutering in male dogs on roaming, aggression, urine marking and mounting as a result of the age of being neutering, and the consciousness of the clients on neutering. The neutered dogs were 33.6% (15% of female dogs and 50% of male dogs). Proportions of dogs neutered were significantly different between male and female. In a retrospective study involving 87dogs, it was concluded that there were no differences in the objectionable male behavioral patterns of roaming, aggression, urine marking and mounting between prepubertal neutering and postpubertal neutering. And the objectionable male behavioral patterns were amenable to alteration by neutering in adulthood. Except of aggression, the other behavioral patterns were declined in 80-90% of the dogs. Most of the clients were satisfied with the result of neutering and the reason s of neutering were to remove the objectionable behavioral patterns in males and to prevent and treat of reproductive system in females.

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