Something horrible happened to me...

As you may or may not know I’ve been very lucky and have not had my nads removed like many other males.  This means I have not had to experience that horrible thing called anaesthetic!

See I'm very well endowed ;)

Sadly that all ended today :sad:   If only I could have put two and two together and realise this is why everyone at our Great Dane meet up was saying
“Aaawww poor Jasper”.

Monday morning my huMAN took me to the vet. I love the vet, it always smells like dogs and I love dogs!! :)   Also the vet that Lexi and I go and see is very nice and he has a beautiful sunny waiting room for us to chill out in.  We go to Rothesay Bay Vet Clinic.

But this vet visit was different, my human brought my blanket along and then left me there… :shock:    My vet came and gave me an injection, and the next minute I’m waking up from a deep sleep feeling very yucky :(   I couldn’t even stand up!

While I was drifting in and out of consciousness, hoping this horrible feeling would go away, I hear a familiar voice. My huMAN!! :D My vet comes to get me, I stand up to go and see my huMAN…  but goodness the floor was moving and I felt so very high up (these long legs are good for running, but not when you don’t feel so good).  I wobbled out to see my huMAN.

We get home and I was still feeling so yucky I went straight back to sleep.  When Laura came home all I could do was sit up rest my head on the window and watch her come in.  I felt so horrible and I was still very wobbly on my legs!  A regal creäture such as myself should not have to be in this state! :(   I was feeling so sorry for myself, that I just sat with Laura, staring up at her looking as pathetic as I could!  Can you believe it though, she was giggling at me!! She said my face looked so funny, and she couldn’t help it! *Humph* :mad: It wasn’t my fault I felt horrible, it was their fault for taking me to the vet!

*Dum dum dummm* Then I clicked…

I had lost my nads!! :shock:

Don’t worry, I’m not really that upset about losing them.  It’s better for me in the long run, now I won’t be pumped full of hormones that make me want to put my nads to good use ;)   Plus I have less chance of getting bad sickies that are often associated with having them! This is the why my humans decided to get my nads chopped off, it just wasn’t fair for me to have them and not be able to use them!

Most people get their male dogs neutered because the hormones are causing them to be not so friendly with other male dogs and a little bit to friendly with female ones :p You see I’ve always been a very reliable boy when it comes to dominant male confrontations, I never feed into their behaviour, will always try and avoid a dog that will have a problem with me and have never started a dominant male confrontation. When another dog wants to start a confrontation I’m very good, I stand there very VERY still (but nice and tall, I don’t submit :p), I don’t make eye contact with the dog because I don’t want to accept his challenge.  I’ll stand there like that until either the human has collected the dog or it momentarily forgets about me and then I run away.  I display this behaviour even if the dog is being aggressive. For a while though my humans thought I was trying to start dominant confrontations, but it was actually me being insecure. It’s only Danes that I don’t interact with properly and losing my nads won’t make a difference in that situation!  *Pffft* and they say dogs love playing with other dogs that are the same breed as them…*Hmmm* maybe I’m a terrier?! :)

Another benefit to me loosing my nads, fingers crossed, is that the number of insecure dogs going crazy at me will reduce.  Obviously it won’t completely stop, after all I am a Giant Breed and we always bring out the crazy in dogs ;)   But hopefully the ones that go crazy because of my nads will stop :p

I’m sure my human will keep you posted on any behavioural changes she sees in me!  I bet I’ll be exactally the same ;)

Note from Laura:  Yes, we finally got him booked in for his neutering. A while back I talked about getting it done because we were having some minor issues with him when we were meeting up with other danes,  after taking him around them more and more I realised it was an insecurity with a fight or flight response attached to it, which is why we were getting a mix of nervous and grouchy behaviour when around the other danes (it was only danes he behaved like this around, other giant breeds didn’t bother him).  He is slowly getting used to them, tends to keep to himself and avoid them if he can, he has even dabbled in a bit of play.   The reason we decided to get him neuterd is that he wasn’t going to be used for breeding (he’s too small, 52kg when his brothers weigh in at 75kg) and I just felt bad leaving them on when he would never be able to use them.  I can only imagine the frustration for him, having all his hormones telling him to do one thing and then not being able to.  I’m sure our male readers can relate ;)

Anyway, he seems to be recovering nicely and fingers crossed we don’t end up with too much excess skin!

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