All pet quality, companion Cavaliers sold by Charming Cavaliers are sold on a limited AKC registration and are restricted from breeding. No puppies produced by a dog with limited registration will be eligible for registration. Selling our pet quality Cavaliers with limited registration prevents them from falling into irresponsible hands for the wrong reasons. 

We recommend spaying or neutering for the health of your Cavalier. Charming Cavaliers has a spay/neuter agreement that is part of our contract and is mandatory. If you are not intending on showing your Cavalier, spaying or neutering is the best thing to do for them and you. It can prolong your Cavaliers life by eliminating reproductive cancers as well as provide you with a better companion. Recovery time for these surgeries is fairly quick.  
 
Twice a year an intact female will go into heat leaving a bloody discharge wherever she goes. Once spayed she will no longer have a heat cycle. Spaying is a surgical procedure that removes the ovaries and uterus. If done before the first estrus (heat cycle) it greatly reduces the risks of breast and uterine cancer. If you own an intact female you have to be concerned with having an unplanned litter should an intact male get to her. Unplanned litters can be very dangerous; your female can be hurt if the male is of a larger breed and the puppies may be too large for her to pass naturally. Don’t think a fence will keep the stray males away, hormones can move mountains to get to her. Spaying will not make your Cavalier fat and will not change her temperament.

After being neutered a male will be much less likely to mark their territory and or mount people and or objects. These behaviors disappear once the testosterone levels recede after neutering if they were there in the first place. Their want to find a mate is gone as well, so they make much better companions and have only you on their minds. Castration is the surgical procedure that removes the testicles. Neutering greatly reduces the risk of testicular and prostate cancer. Diet and exercise is in your hands, neutering will not make your Cavalier fat.

When is the correct time to spay/neuter your Cavalier? There is some debate, We ask that all Cavaliers bred by Charming Cavaliers and sold with a spay/neuter agreement be spayed/neutered by six months of age. This is before they reach sexual maturity and has the greatest medical benefit for the Cavalier.