"Neutered" dog question

[Rusty Hills Farm]

Also, just because you only witnessed that mating doesn't mean that others could not have taken place prior to that event or even that another tom could not have mated with her.

She was a house cat who never got outside. Period. In fact she was the only cat we had! The neutered tom had never been inside the house before that day. I rescued him from a race track barn after he had been kicked by a horse and I took him directly to the vet. A few days later I brought him home from the vet. It was his first time inside any house. She was not bred by anyone but him and only that one time because I crated him after that incident and kept him crated for over a month.

She was a white cat and he was a grey. All of the kittens were white with small grey areas--top of the head, on the ears, on the paws, a patch of grey on the back. He was definitely the daddy. When I told the vet, his only response was "Oops!" but he did take one of the kittens.

Unlike a lot of people, I do not let my animals roam. Not ever. Not my dogs. Not my cats (when we had them). Not even my chickens.

Sorry this doesn't meet with your high standards of proof. However, in the real world when dealing with animals of any kind, it is best to take every precaution. "But they aren't supposed to be able to do that!" doesn't help anything when you are presented with an unplanned litter. Like they say, "An ounce of prevention...."


Rusty​

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I had my dog neutered. Shortly afterwards, he sired a litter of puppies with my female dog. She had four puppies. After they bred and tied, I called the clinic and they said it was possible for neutered dogs to sire puppies for up to a month after neutering. Maybe it's only a certain number of days. I'm just going by what the vet clinic said. They absolutely can for a limited amount of time, because I had a litter of puppies in my house. He didn't have breeding access to her in the six months before he was neutered. No other dog had access to her. I was always very careful about that. I just wasn't careful with a neutered dog. I honestly didn't know I had to be.

The clinics attitude was that I should have known this and taken precautions for a month. The phrase "of course" was used, along with an attitude, like everyone knows this! I don't think this was or is common knowledge at all. If someone else has more accurate information on what the exact range of time is, that a male dog can impregnate a female dog after neutering, that would be great.

I'm sure there isn't a high incidence of this happening, but it can happen.

 

[silkiechicken]

Closed by request of OP.

 

[scbatz33]

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If you have copies of articles published in peer-reviewed veterinary journals that show a significant incidence of castrated male dogs siring puppies, then I would love to see them!


Edited because loupgaroux seem to have a hard time spelling "then."

This was why I was panicked about my dogs all those years ago. My vet told me the same thing. They can still have semen in the "plumbing" even thought eh testicles have been removed. So yes, they can still breed, although I don't know about a month. I believe my vet told me 2 weeks or so.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I looked it up today and an article by a vet said the sperm is produced in the testicles, but requires 10-14 days to mature in the epididymis. They travel from the epididymis down the duct/tube, called the vas deferens. Since that isn't removed during a neutering, there can still be sperm in that area after a neutering. I saw estimates from 2 weeks to a month, depending on which sites you're looking at. Google has plenty of sites listed with information about this, for anyone that cares to look it up.

Apparently, some vets do caution their clients that it's a possibility. It's made me feel better reading that today. Even if it's only a small percentage of cases, I still think it's good to let people know that it's a possibility and to just be careful for a couple of weeks.