Timeline for Canine Male-Male Aggression Question
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| Sep 22 at 22:24 | comment | added | MDF | Sorry, I just noticed your subsequent reply. I think I was asking the correct question. I've amended my original question in a manner hopefully clarifying. | |
| Aug 29 at 6:04 | comment | added | Elmy♦ | In that case, you asked the wrong question. Your question clearly concentrates on the sex and reproductive status of both dogs, not just the aggressor. Since dog aggression was mostly seen as a public health problem until very recently, studies concentrate on attacked humans and it's very hard to find any information about attacked dogs. If you're mostly interested if neutering makes dogs more aggressive, then the answer is "maybe". Read more here and here | |
| Aug 28 at 20:48 | comment | added | MDF | As an advocate of spaying/neutering, I found this troubling and still remain somewhat baffled that no one apparently has collected and analyzed data along the lines I set out in my post. Oh well, I'll keep looking. Thanks again. | |
| Aug 28 at 20:47 | comment | added | MDF | Thank you for the detailed response. I'm actually well aware of Google Scholar, having wasted --, errrr, expended -- countless hours there searching subjects of hobby interest. I actually had found the Beaver 1983 study you cited, and other papers sniffing around the edges of the issue. But my search is complicated by unfamiliarity with the jargon and the inconsistent (often implicit) categorizations of "aggression." What got me started was an oft-mentioned 2018 paper purporting to find (based on owner surveys) that neutered dogs may be somewhat more aggressive than intact ones. | |
| Aug 26 at 11:15 | history | answered | Elmy♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |