VMD 513: Pet animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

DOG OR BITCH

• This is one of the major decision when the pen owner should consider while acquiring a dog.
• In the larger, guarding breeds males tend to be significantly larger in size, more dominate in temperament and require firm handling.
• Bitches in general are more biddable, more sympathetic and kindly with children and often intuitively quicker to define their owner’s wish.
• On the other hand bitches can experience mood swings and variable temperament during the estrous cycle.
• If you want a dog as a permanent companion to be available for anything the family wants to do, then the male is perhaps more suitable, unless there are definite plan to control estrus in the bitches.