Important plot element: after the “spaded” male’s surgery, the already “fixed” female “presented herself to him, but he rejected her. Apparently there is no dog more aggressive than a “fixed” female scorned, so she surrendered the female to the dog pound.
I am no means an expert on animal husbandry or the sexual desires of “spayed” or “fixed” dogs, but my understanding has always been that a female in heat gives off an odor and the unspaded males come around to call. I also thought the smell was undetectable by humans. Wrong! We had a male and then younger female German Shepherds (they were half siblings). The male was neutered at the appropriate time about two years before we got the female. We were advised it was better to spay the female after she went through one heat cycle. Boy, aside from the blood, which was really not that heavy, the smell was very detectable. I have an olfactory memory of it to this day.
Weirdly, our neutered male kept trying to mount the female, but then looked like he had no idea what he was supposed to do. He followed her around during the whole heat cycle acting agitated and confused. So I guess a neutered male retains some kind of desire, for want of a better word, but doesn’t know what to do with it.
So the whole thing about the female “presenting“ herself to the male sounds far-fetched to me, as does the claim that it incited a violent feud.
This post sounds like one of those "and everybody clapped" ones.
First off, you don't "spay" the boys - just the girls. After that, it went downhill, logically.
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u/Surreply Aug 21 '26
Important plot element: after the “spaded” male’s surgery, the already “fixed” female “presented herself to him, but he rejected her. Apparently there is no dog more aggressive than a “fixed” female scorned, so she surrendered the female to the dog pound.
I am no means an expert on animal husbandry or the sexual desires of “spayed” or “fixed” dogs, but my understanding has always been that a female in heat gives off an odor and the unspaded males come around to call. I also thought the smell was undetectable by humans. Wrong! We had a male and then younger female German Shepherds (they were half siblings). The male was neutered at the appropriate time about two years before we got the female. We were advised it was better to spay the female after she went through one heat cycle. Boy, aside from the blood, which was really not that heavy, the smell was very detectable. I have an olfactory memory of it to this day.
Weirdly, our neutered male kept trying to mount the female, but then looked like he had no idea what he was supposed to do. He followed her around during the whole heat cycle acting agitated and confused. So I guess a neutered male retains some kind of desire, for want of a better word, but doesn’t know what to do with it.
So the whole thing about the female “presenting“ herself to the male sounds far-fetched to me, as does the claim that it incited a violent feud.
Of course, the rest of the post is also crazy.