Ethan's nearly 10 months now (in a week) and about this age is the recommended age by the veterinarian to perform a neutering. I'm not planning on breeding him nor see him become territorial or behave weirdly when a female in heat is around. I did a lot of research and apparently neutering a dog is good for their health and they become less aggressive too.

Yesterday I brought him to the vet for his schedule for neutering.

His vet is just 10 minutes away from us. Even though there are vets closer to us, we still go there since they are our vet since 2018 (for my cats). This branch is just a small clinic and they have a bigger branch somewhere downtown but I haven't been there yet.

I had to call the assistance of the vet to carry Ethan upstairs haha cos he still doesn't know how to. I had no chance to train him since the stairs at home is so steep and quite dangerous for him to climb to.

I can't carry him like I used to since he's already 25 kilos. Very big dog. Here at the pic the vet, who's also a trainer, was trying to train him to climb upstairs lol. Still he won't.

They tested his blood (CBC) first to check if he's good fit for the procedure. Everything was fine so he had the green light for it.

I went home to nap for a bit since I can pick him up like 4 hours later anyway.

Where his balls at?!

About an hour later they called me saying they couldn't find his testes. He has a condition called cryptorchidism where a dogs's balls don't drop as normal. Normally, his balls should've dropped at 2 months age, but in his case it didn't. The reason why I waited for him to get neutered at 9 months is because I was waiting for it to descend. I was also wondering why it didn't and I literally feel nothing not even a bump but I thought it's just somewhere nearby since I also don't know how to check anyway haha.

So yeah, what happened is that the vets felt a ball of tissue near his penis and thought it was one of his testes so they proceeded with the surgery anyway. They cut him but unfortunately it was just a ball of fats. :/

They looked in the areas nearby and still couldn't find it so they just stitched his cut and advised me to let it heal and do an ultrasound after like a week or so.

So where the balls might be??

They suspect the balls might be in the abdomen area which is far deep and needs a major surgery (and not just the normal neutering procedure) or the testes have been dissolved by the cells while he was growing. If the case is the former, he needs to have them removed cos he is 10x more at risk to develop cancer or tumor in that area.

All of these will be found out after we perform the ultrasound.

_{"What the hell did you do to me? You cut me up for no reason! >:("}

True. xD If he didn't have a fat in there it wouldn't have been suspected for testes. So yeah, we went home with him having a cut for absolutely no reason. But at least we know his condition and that complications can easily be prevented.

He still been given antibiotics and painkillers and now he's currently healing. He's in pain tho, can't even sit properly in the first 24 hours. Poor baby. :(

I got him at 4 months old

I think this is probably the very reason why nobody wanted to buy him from the breeder when all of his brothers and sisters were already bought. Dogs with his condition can't breed cos they're most likely infertile.

Quite sad to know that most people who get breed dogs only want them for profit. I know it's quite hypocritical to say it since I bought him from the breeder anyway but I never wanted him because I want an ROI. I got him following my intuition that I SHOULD get him and that intuition was so strong that I couldn't stop thinking about it since. I never wanted to breed him nor had the thought of producing litters.

I mean breeding isn't bad - it's actually beneficial for the breed not to die. But getting a dog only for the sole purpose of it is sad. What if you found out the dog can't be bred? You will see him as useless then? This is what I felt about Ethan's case and ever since I got him I kept on wondering why nobody wanted him and now I found the reason. Also probably why I felt very connected to him, like, nobody wanted him cos he was thin, cross-eyed, and possibly infertile, but now I will do everything to get his most beautiful self to show them people who rejected him that he's the best of the siblings. 🙄

I feel grateful that I got him instead of somebody else. Now I think if somebody else got him would they do all these things and spend money for him to prevent complications and worse cancer? There are probably good hearted people out there but most I see really aren't.

When people hear I'm neutering my dog the first thing I hear is them feeling bad about the situation cos then I can't produce a litter that I could sell. I don't care about the profit at all and a dog isn't an investment. Just sad of their mindset about money first and not the actual well being of their supposed to be companion.

Anyway, he's doing well atm and just waiting to fully heal. Once everything is okay we will go with the ultrasound and possibly a major surgery. :>