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Castration won't be the cause. Over feeding will be the reason. A castrated dog has an increased appetite and, if owners give them more food, then they will get fat. Keep to the same feeding levels as before castration and normal exercise and there will be no problem. However behavioural problems such as scenting a female on heat from a mile away and doing everything possible to get to that female could be greatly reduced or eliminated in a castrated dog.
Castration is considered to be a necessary management practice in animal production. Although younger animals exhibit less pain, stress, and distress in response to the procedure, all methods of castration induce pain and physiologic stress in animals of all ages. Pain and physiologic stress resulting from the procedure should be minimized to provide for the overall welfare of the animal. Available methods of minimizing pain and stress include application of local anesthesia and the administration of analgesics.
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The practice of castration has its roots before recorded human history.[1] Castration was frequently used in certain cultures of Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa and China, for religious or social reasons. After battles in some cases, winners castrated their captives or the corpses of the defeated to symbolise their victory and 'seize' their power. Castrated men — eunuchs — were often admitted to special social classes and were used particularly to staff bureacracies and palace households: in particular, the harem. Castration ... figured in a number of religious castration cults. Other religions, for example Judaism and Islam, were strongly opposed to the practice.
Castration isn't likely to stop a sex offender from preying on people. It will only change the way these predators go about their crimes. As Florida prosecutor Jerry Burford told the St. Petersburg Times: "I get a lot of people who are impotent that still commit sexual battery. It's not their gonads that cause them to commit sexual battery. It's their heads."
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Castration is commonly performed on domestic animals not intended for breeding. Domestic animals are usually castrated in order to avoid unwanted or uncontrolled reproduction; to reduce or prevent other manifestations of sexual behaviour such as territorial behaviour or aggression (eg. fighting between groups of entire (uncastrated) males of a species); or to reduce other consequences of sexual behaviour that may make animal husbandry more difficult, such as boundary/fence/enclosure destruction when attempting to get to nearby females of the species.
Castration in small animal patients may be performed on a routine basis for population control and behavior modification or may be performed for disease control or treatment. Castration may be recommended to treat any of the following conditions:
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