# dog hormones?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-hormones/187949>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 12, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-hormones/187949 "2003-07-12T11:49:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-hormones/187949/1 "2003-07-12T11:49:16Z")

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A Vet just said that my dog (3 year old female mixed breed) needs hormones and has incontinence due to her being neutered (This was done 2 &1/2 years ago)?

I don’t know whether to believe this? I sure don’t want to be giving my dog hormones for the rest of her life and I hate that she might actually be inconntinent forever (as does she I expect)

She had been licking her crotch (excessively) and "dribbling urine prior to Vet visit.  
I believe a uninary tract infection is the cause (Vet also diagnosed the infection)

Anyone heard of this incontinence and hormones due to neutering?

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**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-hormones/187949/2 "2003-07-12T14:46:16Z")

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The exact same thing happened to my dog. The doctor prescribed DES for her. I give her one small pill per week. There have been no side-effects that I’ve noted.

As I understand it, you’re really not giving her anything that she wouldn’t naturally have if she hadn’t been “fixed.”