Could you settle an argument I had a couple of weeks ago with a friend. I saw a similar question on 'visitors questions' but no one replied which was a shame because I thought I might be able to claim my bet at last. I say, that castrated males smell different to non castrated males. My friend says they don't. I mean smell different to other males dogs not to us humans before you all go sniffing your dogs.....yuk. But I think males can tell the difference, am I right or have I got to dig into my pocket.

I would say most definately yes. Castrated males often get picked on and treated as bitches by other males who try to mount them, especially if they are very low ranking individuals!

Yes at one time had a castrated and an entire male dog, the poor castrated one got mounted quite often, on the other hand if one of them got attacked, it was always the entire one, who was perceived as more of a threat to other dogs.

I think so too, plus if you have two males in a home Im sure behaviourist say you always castrate the less dominant one,dont know why.
any comments??

If you castrate the more dominant one then it makes them more 'equal' so fights for dominance are likely to continue. If you castrate the less dominant one it strengthens the dominant one's power and everyone lives happily ever after. That's the theory anyway.
Jane

The aim is to widen the dominance gap so to speak.

On a slightly different tack, an unspayed bitch is only really attractive to a dog when in season but a spayed bitch often produced a certain amount of scent all the time so is always attrative to a dog.

Regards, John

Most neutered males smell different, its a combination of body language and smell that riggers aggresion.
Sometimes neutering males just decreases it and doesn't neccesarily eliminate it, its one of those things thats quite simply an individual thing.

Ah ha, thank you for that John. That explains why my entire male WILL NOT leave my spayed bitch alone. Honestly some boys just can't take a telling and boy does she tell im

And this is why I told off a woman whose male dog charged & attacked my spayed female last fall. He was six months old, demonstrating something seriously wrong with him. It just was not normal!!!

Yes, I think reckon so as wellI used to have a castrated male Dobe and he use'd to make this his advantage, he'd wait for a dog to come over to him and when (male) dog sniffed then backed off not interested in him he'd suddenly attack them! Just because they are castrated doesn't mean it stops the aggression. He never went for bitches though.

'Chelle..

It was the fact a male puppy attacked a (slightly smaller adult) female that really disturbed me. That just isn't done in the dog world --dogs aggressing bitches. She hadn't done anything to set him off & she was right next to my leg. He escaped out of his fenced yard and just charged us both. Very scary to me.
toodles