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11/25/2025

history of Brussels Griffon

11/22/2025

The " Lil Turkeys"
Butterball (male)
and
Honeysuckle (female).
🐾🦃🐾🦃🐾

11/17/2025

11/14/2025

Just a group of the sweetest goobers🤗

11/14/2025

Some Lil Turkeys have arrived just in time for the holidays!
Pics of the Lil Turkeys soon!

11/14/2025

Good Morning

11/13/2025

Snowball fun! ❄️

11/13/2025

Good Morning 🌞

11/12/2025

Good Morning ☺️

11/10/2025

Good morning world 🥰🤗

11/10/2025

*Preventing unwanted litters is a goal we all share—but it's time to rethink the surgical approach. Hysterectomies and vasectomies, which preserve hormonal balance, can safely be performed as early as 8 weeks of age, making dogs sterile without disrupting their natural hormones.

New peer-reviewed study published in Nature:

How a dog’s lifetime exposure to his own hormones (before being neutered) affects how well he handles aging and frailty later in life.

Study Background

• Frailty = when older dogs (and people) become weaker, less resilient, and more prone to illness and death.
• Most research looks at how to prevent frailty — this study looked at what makes some dogs bounce back better after frailty sets in.
• The focus was on the HPG axis — the hormonal system that produces testosterone and controls reproduction.

Key Findings

• Dogs neutered very young (before 2 years old) had:

o A much higher risk of death once they became frail.
o About 16% higher mortality for every small increase in frailty.

• Dogs kept intact longer (more than ~10 years) showed:
o No increase in mortality linked to frailty.
o Their hormones seemed to “buffer” the negative effects of aging.

• Each extra year of natural hormone exposure reduced frailty-related death risk by ~1%.

What It Means

• Hormones from the te**es may protect against the worst effects of aging later in life.
• Removing them too early could make dogs less resilient to age-related decline.
• Frailty isn’t just about getting old — it’s also shaped by early-life events like the timing of neutering.
• This supports a “life course” view: what happens early in life affects health decades later.

Why It Matters

• The study suggests timing of neutering might influence how well dogs age.

11/10/2025

Pretty lady Nargiz 😍 💕