[HelloBeautiful]

Kinda Confusing...

Our Yorkie pup was done at 12 weeks by the breeder. It seems breeders and vets have different opinions about when to get them fixed. Breeders say (the one's we've gotten our purebred toy dogs from) that to get males fixed at about 4 months, or right before they start marking territory; because once that instinct is there to leave their mark, it'll always be. And I can vouch for that because we got our big outside male dogs fixed at 1 year, and they still mark, yet we got our indoor cats and dogs fixed right when they started, and we've never had problems. Now with females, I like to wait after their first heat. We got our female cat fixed at 6 months, right when she started to go into heat because all these tom cats started coming around... If all of this sounds confusing, I'll just lay it out like this:

Breeders say:

females: 3-4 months
males: 3 months or right before they start marking

Vets say:
females: after first heat or 6 months
males: 5 months to 1 year (usually no later than 1 year or it can kind of mess them up)

 

[HelloBeautiful]

Sorry, slightly out of date....

The vets around here, out in the country, are so old fashioned, I probably sound like I don't know what I'm talking about...lol! Alot of the vets here also work primarily on livestock and such, so they don't specialize in cats and dogs much. That's what you can expect living out in the boonies I reckon.