I went through a phase of random dogs attacking Jett, this started when he was around 11 months old. I also had an incident where Jett attacked back, but looking back I think he was trying to defend himself
. He started to mark his scent on literally every post on a walk.
I spoke to my vet about it all, especially the random attacks. My vet said as he is turning in to an adult dog he is letting off a scent, other dogs see may see this as a threat.
I discussed neutering with the vet and as he is now fully grown we decided to get him done.
I was very apprehensive about it as I didn't want to change his personality and I didn't want to affect his progress in his training. However I really did not like it that random dogs would attack him with no warning, this in itself was enough to make the decision.
So he had the operation, he was in and out in one day. He came home and was feeling very sorry for himself for a few days.
To my delight his personality has not changed at all, he is still a lovely chap and still very very annoying
(in a nice way)
He almost instantly stopped marking his scent and 2 months later we have had no random attacks.
It was a hard decision, but for me I think we made the right one.