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[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