Stop and think before buying a dog from abroad!

I have seen so animals "free to good home" who have ended up being tortured or snake food. I have seen so animals abused in ways that make you want to vomit. My own Buddy was beaten to the point that if he heard a man sneeze he would wet himself. I respect honest and responsible breeders but they are so far removed that they are no longer the norm, if they ever were. People just do not have the kind of respect they should for animals.

I will never forget the day my father called the police to report seeing a dog get hit by a car and injured terribly to the point it had its intestines exposed but the police said animal welfare would have to deal with the situation because they were too busy. We took that poor dog in our car to the first vet we found in a strange city. I was 8 years old. He'd had no collar and this was before chips. We paid for him to be put down because he was in misery with no chance to recover. That was in the USA. I will not even mention what I have seen in Greece where poison is the usual method of animal control.

I accept and understand your reasons.

But I will never neuter 'as a matter of course'. I consider myself a responsible owner & as such I have a duty of care to my dogs not to put them under the surgeon's knife if it is unnecessary. Early neutering causes more problems than it solves, and routinely neutering a nervous dog can cement that nervousness in for life.

A common myth is that spaying stops pyometra. It doesn't. A bitch can suffer from 'stump' pyometra which is difficult to detect & therefore more deadly.

Several cancers are connected to neutering. Urinary incontinence is common in neutered dogs. Failure to grow properly is common in early neutered dogs. Neutering doesn't solve behavioural problems.

And nobody should 'accidentaly' mate their dog. 99% of all 'accidental' matings were down to owners' own faults.