OMG chopping your dogs balls off has nothing to do with being responsible or not. Why do you North Americans fail to see that people can be responsible owners and have in tact dogs? Jesus christ, talk of soap boxes.
There is no way in hell I'd have put Targ through unnecessary surgery with a wealth of potentially life long side effects and I'm a responsible dog owner, much like many others.
Your same argument can be used by anti gun people and you hate it when people make that equivalent argument so why is it okay in this case?