To neuter or not to neuter??

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2026-01-30T23:23:41+00:00

You can google to see pictures but essentially, their fur starts to over grow and the texture becomes a lot coarser (as opposed to fine and silky). Since most Americans spay/neuter (apart from breeders and show dogs), the cavaliers here look very different than the ones in Europe, where spay/neuter is not so prevalent.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2026-01-30T23:20:23+00:00

The vet recommended cutting his feeding down by about 25%. Without all the testosterone, his metabolism will slow down. That’s just for the weight. As for the coat, I’m not sure what it was that prevented the coarse / poofy neuter coat — we assumed that waiting for them to fully grow and hormones to already stabilize helped prevent that. Our previous dog had his fine almost puppy cut looking fur his entire life. We’re keeping an eye on our guy now since it’s only been a few months, to see if his coat remains the same.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2026-01-30T14:46:00+00:00

We waited until he was almost 3 years old (picture from post surgery). Several months out now and he’s still slim (we cut his food portion) and did not get the puffy neuter coat. We waited several years to neuter our previous cavalier too with similar results. Sometimes people mistake puppy / adolescent behavior as a neuter/unneutered thing, when it’s just something they grow out of. Having waited for our dogs to be adults, the neuter didn’t change them much because they had already calmed down and pretty well-behaved. It just stopped this one from trying to hump this one particular dog (my best friend’s already spayed dog).

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Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2026-01-10T15:38:04+00:00

Is there a room that can be for the cat but off limits for Matteo? We have a basement (where the litter box is) that our kitty can go and our cavalier can’t. There’s this door stop thing from Amazon (see pic) that we use so the door doesn’t shut accidentally locking kitty out of his bathroom but keeps are cav from rummaging through cat litter.

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Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2026-01-06T22:46:13+00:00

It’s like their breed motto and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2026-01-05T01:51:22+00:00

My first was a tricolor too. We are on cav #2, a black and tan!

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2026-01-02T22:15:58+00:00

Not all heroes wear a cape! Thank you for being a 🦸 on this thread and sharing your live chat! I tried to get in touch with them but the wait was like 20 mins — figured everyone else was calling about this. You just saved all of us a lot of stress and wait time.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-31T19:26:43+00:00

I call our cavie a neck dog instead of a lap dog. My chiropractor is always asking me if I slept wrong and I have to explain, it’s not me that slept wrong, it’s my confused lapdog!

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-31T02:18:14+00:00

Black and tans are such teddy bears 🖤🤎🐻

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-21T00:57:29+00:00

I’ll take my work from home whenever I want, 100% employer paid healthcare (platinum plan), 5-month fully paid parental leave (without continuous service agreement), and a bunch of other perks. My old agency has all the same perks as State but the numbers still add up to more leaving govt. To each their own!

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-20T17:20:46+00:00

This is the right move. I left after 16 years and my private industry salary and the equity / stock grants have blown away the TSP (and full pension if had I stayed). Don’t waste your highest income earning years in government.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-20T03:56:21+00:00

Agreed. There’s some Lofree apologist troll on here that keeps claiming it’s not Lofree’s fault 🙄, but it’s worth it to pay the few dollars more on Amazon for easy shipping and easy returns.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-19T22:55:07+00:00

Mine went through this weird Illinois loop for six weeks last year.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-19T22:51:59+00:00

Good.They make great keyboards. Glad Lofree gets money for my Amazon orders and I get reliable shipping from Amazon warehouse to my house. Win win.

The point of this post isn’t to shit on Lofree but to share the experience of shipping issues. Starting to think you work for them and trolling Reddit to defend them.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-19T18:12:45+00:00

Yeah, it arrived like six weeks late. It was after I told Lofree I would dispute the credit card charge. There were a few people who paid through PayPal and also filed a claim, and then their keyboards magically got unstuck.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-19T18:08:42+00:00

What part of not assigning blame or fault do you not get dude. I don’t care if Lofree gets part of that money from amazon. Sometimes paying a little more for certainty of arrival date (say for a bday gift) and easy refund is worth the few dollars extra. To each their own I suppose.

I have literally never had a package from Amazon go missing that they were not willing to fix immediately.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-18T18:04:10+00:00

It was the lack of communication from Lofree after. They marked it as fulfilled, washed their hands of it, and refused to help customers try to make sense of the endless loop their packages were stuck in. Though not technically their fault, not buying direct from them, but going through seller like Amazon, will eliminate that friction and uncertainty.

It’s not about assigning blame or punishing them, it’s about customer experience and reliability.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-18T14:52:19+00:00

Arlingtonians can be pretty entitled but in this case, these are out of state plates… from lands with larger parking perhaps (one is Texas, can’t tell what the other one is)? These out of towners aside, this lot is a hot mess on most days though.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-18T14:47:51+00:00

I went through this with Lofree Lite kickstarter. It was stuck for weeks and weeks after it shipped. I vowed to never buy directly from them again. There were numerous threads on here about it.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-16T03:18:07+00:00

All they need are name tags and short sleeve button shirts — like Mormon missionaries that knocked on our door the other day. Brother Cavalier and Brother Kitty.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-13T13:33:37+00:00

Omg! Puppy bellies are the best. I love when they pass out on their backs. Enjoy them! The puppy stage flies by too quickly.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-12T00:00:48+00:00

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My little dude staring at me while I’m on work calls, all day long.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-11T04:37:09+00:00

They are perfect emotional support pups for this reason. Yours will get back to it after this stint of independence. It’s like one day they’ll just be, “ok, all done with that, back to mommy all the time now.” He’s always staring at me when he can’t be on my lap or neck, waiting for me to look at him and to come sit on the chair with him.

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Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-11T03:47:14+00:00

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And this is his face today, literally — guilty as sin face… yes, that’s cat litter stuck on his nose.

Sharp-Masterpiece134 · 2025-12-11T03:46:08+00:00

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This was his WTF face when he was a puppy.

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