Implicações reprodutivas fisiológicas e comportamentais em cães (Canis familiares) pós-castração no HUV/UEMA

Abstract

The dogs are animals pluríparos short gestation, with great potential for the production of numerous strains, the excess animals in cities, causing a series of disorders to the urban population and public health losses. Dogs suffer behavioral changes due to the increase of sex hormones and can become aggressive, submissive urination present, disobedience, and hormone-dependent diseases. This can be slowed with surgical sterilization. However the surgical procedure takes the animal to introduce changes in hormonal rates, mainly the sex hormones, resulting in the emergence of changes such as: behavior, diseases and nutrition in a short time. 10 animals were selected (5 males and 5 females) who had their rates hormonal (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and glucose) measured before and after castration. Investigative questionnaires were applied and the information obtained correlated. The animals showed changes in behavior, being most evident in males. In collecting post castration in females there was a decrease in estrogen and progesterone, and testosterone is not modified lower values 0, featuring 35ng/dL in males there was a slight increase in the progesterone and testosterone and a decrease in estrogen.