I tried to find an answer

[Marthe48]

If a male dog is sterile, does he still have a sex drive? We adopted a stray years ago. He got Parvo within days after we got him vaccinated for it and we almost lost him. He survived and lived to be 9. He was never interested in female dogs, never roamed, house broken, gentle, a really good boy. He was a golden retriever mixed with collie. We didn't get him neutered, and he was very young when we found him, and we lived in an area where spay/neuter was not wide-spread. Our vet said the Parvo might have rendered him sterile. It was a new disease, and hadn't been studied.

My daughter and her family just adopted a golden retriever, and I am walking down memory lane as I get to know him

[Ocelot II]

1. If he still had his trouble nuggets he might have still had those urges.

It would have been like when a human gets a vasectomy; though if he never chased the ladies, the parvo might have caused that.

[Marthe48]

2. Thanks

'trouble nuggets' lol

[iscooterliberally]

3. I can't say for sure, but here's what happened with one of my dogs.

I adopted one male dog as a puppy and had him fixed at about 6 months old. When he was about a year old we rescued another male dog from a high kill shelter. He was about 4 at the time, but had to be fixed before they would release him from the shelter. I few years later we moved and our new landlord had a couple of dogs. He swore they were fixed, but one of his females went into heat. My older dog knew what to do with that since he wasn't fixed early on. He started to go after the female in heat. My younger dog was larger and he caught the scent as well. He mounted the female and she stood for him. Anyway, I've seen this happen with cats too. I don't think there's really a definitive answer to your question. It could really go either way. The bottom line is that a fixed dog can't reproduce and that's what it's really all about.

[Marthe48]

5. That's a good point about can't reproduce

Our dog never got a chance even to be tempted.

Thanks!

[hlthe2b]

4. Sterility implies nonviable or absent sperm. The reasons for male dogs (or humans) not "breeding" are not

limited to sperm issues, but include low testosterone levels driving mating desire, behavioral causes influencing lack of desire with a given female, physical problems (e.g., pain in copulating from injury or osteoarthritis/hip dysplasia or pain to the penis, urethra, etc.)

Parvovirus has been shown to cause infertility, abortion, and stillbirths in female dogs. Not specifically in male dogs, unlike some infections (e.g., brucellosis) or bacteria causing prostatic infections.

But, "sterility" as it sounds like your veterinarian used the term is nonspecific and it is more likely the dog had low sexual drive from hormone insufficiency--even if he had testicles. Or, perhaps he just did not encounter a female in heat.

[japple]

6. I thought goldens humped everything. We will need duncanpup's advice!

[Ocelot II]

7. I think humping is more of a dominance move than evidence of horniness.

Sometimes dogs (and cats) will even molest stuffed toys.