Iowa Veterinary Medical Association

M. Christine Zink, DVM, PhD Parvene Farhoody, MA Samra E. Elser, Baloney Lynda D. Ruffini Tom A. Gibbons, MS Randall H. Rieger, PhD

Zink Integrative Sports Medicine, 12701 Folly Quarter Rd, Ellicott City, MD 21042 (Zink) Department of Psychology, Division of Mathematics and also the Natural Sciences, Queens College, Eliminating, NY 11367 (Farhoody) Veterinary Medical Researcher Training Course, School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Elser) Moravia Veterinary Hospital, 68 Central St, Moravia, NY 13118 (Ruffini) West Chester Statistics Institute, West Chester College, West Chester, PA 19383 (Gibbons, Rieger) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences, West Chester College, West Chester, PA 19383 (Rieger)

Ms. Ruffini's present address is Department of Psychology, Binghamton College, Condition College of recent You are able to, Binghamton, NY 13902. Mr. Gibbons' present address is Bogier Clinical also it Solutions, 900 Ridgefield Dr, Raleigh, NC 27609.

Based on the Vizsla Club of the usa Welfare Foundation.

The authors thank Dr. Noah Cohen, Dr. Gayle Watkins, and Chris Bartizal for technical assistance.

Objective—To investigate associations between age at gonadectomy and believed risk or age at proper diagnosis of neoplastic and behavior disorders in Vizslas.

Design—Retrospective cohort study.

Creatures—2, 505 Vizslas born between 1992 and 2008.

Procedures—Data on census, gonadectomy status, and age at proper diagnosis of disease or disorder were acquired by having an anonymous paid survey and examined.

Results—Dogs gonadectomized at ≤ 6 several weeks, between 7 and 12 several weeks, or at > 12 several weeks old had considerably elevated likelihood of developing mast cell cancer, lymphoma, other cancer, all cancer combined, and anxiety about storms, in comparison using the odds for sexually intact dogs. Women gonadectomized at ≤ 12 several weeks old and males and women gonadectomized...