Most of my life I have had female dogs and they came through spaying with flying colors, almost too well.  The vet told us in all instances to keep them from jumping, engaging in too much exercise at first, but they all ran around like whirling dervishes, jumped on the beds, the furniture, etc., as soon as we brought them home, despite our best efforts.  The spaying were at least 10 years ago, and no preoperative painkillers were given.

I have a 3+ month rattie male who will be neutered at six months and have recently read accounts here and on other sites that he will be a sore, sluggish, need to take it easy for a while and probably should be medicated for pain after the proceudre.

I guess I always thought that since females were sliced open, their entire reproductive systems removed (uterus and ovaries) , and males had everything snipped off on the outside (please, I am not trying to sound sexist or anything) , the boys would recover the fastest, but am I wrong?

I guess my question is for those of you have both boys and girls, which did you think the procedure was harder on?  I'm not against spaying or neutering at all, just don't have experience with the latter, and as I am a worry-wart of a dog mom, I want to know how much pain my Monty will be in, how long it will last, and how long before I can expect before my little monster boy will e his stubborn, couch chewing self.

Kate

I think it is hard with the girls then the boys.  We will beginfostering a 8 month old boy today who is also getting neutered today.