In This Chapter
- Benefiting from inexpensive spaying or neutering surgery for an adopted pet
- Maintaining health, good behavior by spaying or neutering your adopted pet
- Controlling the pet population through spaying or neutering
You Can Do It on the Cheap
Animal shelters and rescue groups
often offer coupons for discounted or free spay/neuter surgery from a
shelter-associated vet.
Spaying/Neutering Makes Pets Healthier
Spay/neuter reduces the risks of
many kinds of common cancers in pets.
Spaying/Neutering Keeps Pets Home
Dogs and cats on the make tend to
escape in search of a mate. Spay/neuter surgery relieves them of the urge so
they stay happily at home.
So What If Your Pet Is a Purebred?
Shelters are full of unwanted
purebreds. Purebred status is no reason to contribute to the problem of pet overpopulation.
Spaying/Neutering Improves Behavior
Whether Chief keeps courting the
innocent legs of your guests or Tiger insists on tomcatting, spaying or
neutering your pet will make him calmer and more receptive to training and
handling. The same idea applies to ferrets and rabbits, too.
If They Never Do It, They Never Miss It
If pets never experiences the
joys of copulation, they won’t keep trying to replicate the experience.
Reproduction Is Risky
Pregnancy and birth are fraught
with dangers for the mother and can be traumatic for the babies. Many don’t
make it or require emergency vet care.
Your Pet Won’t Miss the “Family Jewels”
Your dog may lick himself in that
special place, but he won’t care what exactly he is or isn’t licking.
Eight Million Pets and Counting
by Eve Adamson
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