My female lab Bea is speyed and she is very vocal in that she likes to whine and let me know exactly what she needs
Lux my un neutered male is a quiet boy compared to Bea I don't think that being neutered or not has muchof anything to do with vocal or excitable behaviour
I don't think castration will make his whining worse, or make him aggressive.
He sounds like a confident, sociable sort, so personally I can't see what you've got to lose having him De-plummed now....and you never know, he may just be whining and pacing because he can scent in season bitches in your area, so this may become less problematic once his hormones subside.
Thanks for the input everyone! Based on your advice I think I'll wait for neutering dear Aero.. Sounds like it won't make much of a difference in his behaviour, and that what he's going through is a typical adolescent phase.. I had made a neutering appt. with the vet for December (Merry Christmas, Aero - Santa wants your tackle LOL..), which I have just cancelled.. Cheers!
Kind of less of a 'typical' adolescent phase', and more of a reaction to excitement in a dog who isn't very good at chanelling his adrenaline. Totally agree that castration will do no harm at all. But this will not really improve until you do some really nice work on teaching him rather more self control. Some dogs ARE more vocal than others, without a doubt, but noise is created by two things.... fustration or adrenaline. Fustration can come over as boredom, and adrenaline can hit in many different ways.
You can rarely cure 'noise', but one thing is to make nothing of it, so don't go EITHER way, letting anyone encourage him to 'talk', or by shouting at him (even when it gets on your nerves something terrible!)
A really vocal pet dog is usually 'made' not 'born' by folks secretly enjoying them 'making their feelings known' and conciously or subconciously encouraging it So in ignoring it, castrating him, and quite possibly doing some day to day training around the usual places he is walked to improve his personal self control, you will make it better....But you will probably never eliminate it, sadly.
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Mine can whine, think its mostly for attention or his own way! I tend to ignore him or make him wait,he whined before he was castrated at 14months and at 21 months still does occasionally. castration stopped his exciteable humping and marking all the time and he seems more focused, I dont think he has an aggressive bone in his body he is just a friendly boy. I did notice that entire males arent aggressive towards him since he was done. My vet recommends castration after 12months I would get him "done" when you feel he is ready.
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I don't think that being neutered or not has muchof anything to do with vocal or excitable behaviour 
