Neutering Rottweilers May Actually Reduce Their Lifespan: Study
Rottweilers of both sexes experience a decreased lifespan after ‘The Snip’
(Credit: Dr. Manfred Herrmann / CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED)
Well, this is a bit of a surprise. A newly published study found that dogs that are neutered may actually have a slightly shorter lifespan than intact dogs. This finding was based on a recent analysis of available clinical records in Australia. These records, collated by VetCompass Australia, comprised 3,085 intact and 4,100 neutered Rottweilers from July 1994 to June 2021. The analysis found that dogs that were neutered before one year of age had a shortened lifespan of one-and-a-half years in males and one year in females when compared to their intact counterparts.
The analysis also found similar results in dogs that were desexed — neutered — before the age of four-and-a-half years.
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