Why should I Spay or Neuter my pet? Part 1
	3-18-08 - Article #7
	Spaying and neutering your pets is an effective method of birth control consisting of removing the animal’s reproductive organs. Spaying is the procedure used for female pets and neutering generally refers to the procedure used for male pets. Through spaying or neutering, you will make your pet have a healthier, happier and longer life, as well as helping to reduce the number of dogs and cats condemned to live without homes and without love. More than twenty million cats and dogs are killed each year in the United States in pounds and shelters, or die as a result of accidents, poisoning, starvation and disease. Most of these victims are the unwanted offspring of family pets. By spaying a female pet you will eliminate her heat (estrus) cycles, that occur twice a year in dogs and 3 or more times a year in cats. This will stop the effects of the heat cycle, including the crying, the nervous pacing of a cat in heat and the animal’s efforts to get outside to find a mate. At the same time animals will stop the bloody discharge typical of the heat that can ruin and/or stain rugs, furniture, etc., and you will stop the unwelcome visits of male pets attracted from blocks around by the scent of a female in heat. Neutering a male pet will stop his urge to roam in search of a mate. It will also reduce mounting of furniture, cushions and people’s legs by frustrated dogs and it will stop spraying in male cats.

 

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