Methods to prevent dogs from getting pregnant

1. Inject contraceptive injections. This is a hormonal preparation. During the period of injection, the pet will not be in estrus, but once the injection is stopped, it will return to estrus after a few months. However, this method has been gradually phased out due to the risk of side effects.

2. Take birth control pills. Give the female dog birth control pills before she goes into estrus to suppress hormones and avoid pregnancy. However, like contraceptive injections, these are short-lived and need to be given continuously, and they also have side effects for dogs. It is not as good as surgical sterilization, which can be done once and for all.

3. Get sterilized. Sterilization surgery mainly removes the dog's uterus and ovaries to make it lose its ability to reproduce. It is the most thorough and fundamental method of contraception.

4. Wear dog safety pants on the dog so that other male dogs cannot mate.

Benefits of dog sterilization

1. The benefit of sterilizing female dogs is that it can avoid the troubles of estrus, avoid pyometra, and avoid false pregnancy. , reduce the risk of breast cancer, and avoid uterine and ovarian cancer. The phenomenon of pseudopregnancy in dogs is that some dogs show pregnancy symptoms even though they have not mated after being in estrus. False pregnancy often leads to metabolic disorders in dogs, which can be serious. In some cases, it can also lead to mastitis.

2. The benefits of neutering a male dog are that it can reduce the number of times the dog raises its legs to pee, dilute the dog’s territorial awareness, improve its aggressiveness, reduce the risk of being attacked by other male dogs, and can help the dog By diverting the dog's attention from other dogs to the owner, it can reduce mating behavior habits, it can make male dogs less overly excited when around female dogs, it can reduce the risk of prostate disease, and it can prevent testicular cancer.