The Benefits of neutering your pet.
Neutering:
A surgical procedure which prevents pets from reproducing. Male
dogs and cats are ready to be neutered at eight months; females at six months.
Females can even be neutered in season or early pregnancy, but the risk is somewhat
greater. The veterinarian must be informed of her condition. The best and easiest
thing for you and your pet is to get her neutered before she comes in season
the first time. Dogs and cats have not psychological sex drive. They do not
feel any need to reproduce, and are happier when they're neutered.
- Your pet will be a more content family member- Roaming and over-aggressiveness
are often linked to sex drive. Neutered pets are calmer and more affectionate.
- Your pet will be healthier- less likely to develop certain cancers
or be injured in fights with other animals.
- You will not have to put up with the staining or spraying.
- You will not have to fight off males when your female pet is in season.
- You will not gave to find homes for the offspring- it takes more
time, effort, and money than you'd think to raise a litter of puppies or kittens
for eight weeks, then advertise and find homes for them.
- You won't have to suffer the heartbreak when some or all of the puppies
or kittens don't find new homes.
- You help all animals by not adding to the pet population explosion-
more neutered pets means fewer homeless animals.
Taken from a pamphlet from:
The Humane Society of the United States of America.
This page last updated 05/08/99
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