Neutering / Spaying
Your dog or cat is a friend, a companion, and most of all, a member of your family. Unfortunately, not all pets are as loved and cherished as yours. Four to six million dogs and cats are euthanized each year in animal shelters throughout North America. These figures seem staggering, although it is easy to understand when you consider this scenario: If a male and female cat produce 8 kittens per year, and each of those kittens then produce an average of 8 kittens per year, there are almost 300,000 cats in the “family tree” in just 6 years. By year seven, the descendents of the original male and female number almost 2.4 million!
For each kitten or puppy like yours that find a happy home, four others are unloved, unwanted, homeless, or even abused or neglected. Don’t be a part of the problem...be a part of the solution! The benefits of spaying or neutering your pets are numerous. Not only does it help reduced the number of unwanted pets, it also provides long term health benefits to your beloved pet.
Spay/Neuter Facts- Spaying DOES NOT cause a pet to get lazy or fat, those problems come from overfeeding and poor exercise.
- Personalities are NOT altered by spaying/neutering.
- Surgical risk is very minimal due to modern anesthesia and techniques. However, it is much easier for a pet to be spayed before going through a heat cycle, due to the smaller size of the reproductive tract.
- Early spaying or neutering is encouraged, try to have your pet’s surgery before 6 months of age.
- Decreases the chance of breast tumors later in life.
- Decreases the chance of cystic ovaries and uterine infections later in life.
- Decreases surplus of unwanted puppies and kittens. Pet overpopulation is a big problem.
- Decreases the desire to roam, so your pets are less likely to be hit by a car or lost
- Decreases aggression
- Decreases chance of prostate cancer later in life
- Prevents odor of strong urine, as well as decreases spraying/marking furniture
