Time to be neutered

I have booked Jesse in to be neutered on Friday, 22nd February! It is the first Friday that is suitable for both me and the vet.

It is high time that he gets done as he is now leaning towards aggressive with some male dogs and gets well over excited with the girls. Last night he marked twice in the training hall...

Neutering and Training

I have for the first time started to seriously consider neutering Jesse... in fact, I have over the last few days decided for good that he will be neutered. His behaviour is getting to a point where he stresses himself out around bitches and male dogs and it stresses me out. Over the last few days, he has also started to try to hump Flash frequently... unfortunately Flash doesn't tell him off! So I think it is time.

Yesterday, I took the three boys for a walk and we met a couple of dogs. They were off lead to start off with, so I let Flash and Jesse approach and called Dylan back. Both Flash and Jesse were fine with the dogs, and I was holding on to Dylan's harness. Dylan was interested, so I let him approach one of the dogs (which was put on the lead in the meantime) and Dylan suddenly snapped at it! And as he did that, Jesse went for the other dog that he was previously sniffing without any problems. So I had to stop both, appologised to the other owner and moved on.

This is the sort of thing that I think Jesse will hopefully be a lot less intense about once he is neutered. Although he is not an aggressive dog at all and will not generally initiate a fight, he is much more intense with other dogs than I would like - and I feel that is mainly hormone related. So hopefully, neutering will make him a bit more relaxed about this sort of thing. (Though I fully understand as well that it is Jesse's nature not to back down and on occasions go over the top - he has never been good at controlling his temper once he gets going...).

I tried to book him in this Friday or next Friday to be castrated, but they can't do it as they have only got one vet on. I have booked him in for this Thursday, but that's not really a good idea as I want time off after that. So I will reschedule that for a Friday at the end of February/early March... (Jesse will be 14 months old then).

Some New Year's pictures

We had a lovely walk in the morning...





And then Jesse got a bath (which after the pictures above was inevitable). He has his eyes closed in most pictures because he was very tired after a long walk where he played lots with a little terrier friend and then being bathed and blow-dried...