Dogs more likely to bite if not neutered

In case you needed another reason to spay/neuter your dog:

An article in the New Yorker a while back by the business author Malcom Gladwell points out that “A 1991 study in Denver... compared a hundred and seventy-eight dogs with a history of biting people with a random sample of a hundred and seventy-eight dogs with no history of biting. The breeds were scattered: German shepherds, Akitas, and Chow Chows were among those most heavily represented. (There were no pit bulls among the biting dogs in the study, because Denver banned pit bulls in 1989.)

But a number of other, more stable factors stand out. [Among them]:
(a) The biters were 6.2 times as likely to be male than female,
(b) and 2.6 times as likely to be intact than neutered.

Neutering your male dog will not only help the pet overpopulation problem, but can reduce the likelihood of him biting people - especially children.

Have you made the appointment yet?