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Our Lab\springer cross is booked in next week for the same reason. He is 18 months old, we were told to wait this long so that his bones have reached maximum density and he has stopped growing.
He is already the most docile, dopey, lazy thing in the world, so not sure he can get any calmer...
Sam_w-
Ditto our Bulldog ‘Benny’, he’s a Womble. The vet can feel the other one in his groin so less of a cancer risk but come 18m he’ll be saying bye bye to his knackers. He seems to go through phases of humping or not. You can always tell when he has a growth spurt (pardon the pun) as his temperament changes (barks at even more random stuff). 18m was the time we were told as by this point he should have stopped growing. But it’s not hard and fast, we’ll see in 4m I guess
Cornish_Bike
I had Reggie done at 1 as he only had one descended testicle - which increases cancer risk 10 fold and is passed on, so it is the only option.
Since it was done, he's stopped trying to hump other dogs but hasn't calmed down in the slightest. I couldn't comment on dog aggression, as he never showed any before, but that usually develops (if it does) from around 18 months - so time will tell.