does my Rott need to be "married"

Hi Tarek.

I responded to your other post about your Rotti bit your hand.

In my opinion, all dogs need to be spayed/neutered unless they are planned to be bred by serious breeders.

The fact that your dog bit you can be partially due to him not being neutered at the age of 2.5 yrs old. As kjd mentioned neutering can prevent some diseases/problems later on. In addition to the health problems, it can mellow your dog down and it will be easier to handle/control him.

It is a personal choice but I wish, as a dog foster, that there will be no more puppies born by accident to be euthanized.

Dogs, like people, become fat from being overfed and/or underexercised. I had a male dog, neutered sometime between 3 and 5 years old. He never got fat. In his last year, he slowed down, only because he had degenerative myelopathy and couldn't work his hind legs well. All my females have been spayed. None of them were ever fat. Nor were any of them ever lazy. (I especially watched the weight because extra weight can be hard on the joints) You should watch the weight of your Rottie.

The only exercise your Rottie will miss will be chasing after females in heat. He will also miss out on the car that hit him because he was after that female in heat. And the female dog's owner's hose (or worse) that is turned on him because he isn't the mate they want for their dog!

Please neuter your dog. The un-neutered dogs aren't going to snicker behind his back. You, OTOH, will be acting as a responsible dog owner.

As for that bite: just because it is healing, doesn't mean it wasn't bad. And early warnings shouldn't be ignored.

kjd