These dogs are spayed or neutered and I keep them around to help me with my Westie business - they are models for my annual calendar project and they are company for the other dogs when they need to be separated due to heats when I don't want them bred etc - this way no one has to be separated by themselves without company. (The female heat cycle lasts for three weeks for two or three times a year). One thing my daughter and I would like to do with Molly and Malcolm is train them to perhaps be hospital visitation dogs now that they have some maturity and are settling down.