What is a toy Australian shepherd, what is better, male or female

Updated: Thank you so much for making this one of my most popular videos. Please consider subscribing I am working hard to grow my channel. Thank you! When you think of toy dogs you think tiny but that is not necessarily the case with Toy Australian Shepherds. Toy Australian shepherds are determined by height and not by weight. Males under 14" at the shoulder are toys and females under 13" inches at the shoulder are toys, so toys can weight upwards of twenty pounds. speaking of males and females we will discuss which makes a better pet. (Hint neither) When a male dog is neutered he loses his hormones because his testicles are removed and they produce testosterone. Dogs identify each other through scent. When the hormones are absent the dog is not recognized by scent as a male or female by other dogs. This ends "same sex" aggression brought on by hormones, although most behavior both good and bad is more a product of socialization, training and genetics. Although technically a male with chromosomes xy is still a male, it is not recognized by other dogs as such through scent, same as with females chromosomes xx female but after spay and removal of ovaries which produce the female hormones they are not recognized as female though scent by other dogs. I felt I had to clarify this because in the video I refer to neutered and spayed dogs as "it" and this seems to have caused some confusion. If a dog is xy it is male xx it is female and no surgery can change that, but other dogs do not recognize them as such so choosing by "sex" is not as critical when considering relationships between dogs in the home. I hate to see someone pass up the perfect puppy for their family simply because it is "the wrong sex" when the dog is going to be spayed or neutered and thereby unrecognizable by other dogs as any particular sex within weeks of being altered. Spaying and neutering ends the sex drive of dogs and with ending that drive a score of behavioral problems RELATED TO SEX are eliminated. I hope this clears up any confusion. I don't edit my videos. You can see I did this entirely in one take, no edits, so if my verbiage caused confusion I apologize, but since over 5000 people have watched it and only a couple of people had a gripe about it I think most people got what I was trying to say.