I believe in spaying and neutering pets. To most people, thistopic doesn’t cross their minds as something important. The fact isevery pet owner should listen. The most important thing to know aboutspaying and neutering is that it saves lives.
In every community in theU.S., there are animals sitting in shelters waiting for homes. Onlyabout half of those animals will get one. Every day, 70,000 puppies andkittens are born, its just simple math. There aren’t enough homes forall these animals. Every year, six million animals are euthanized forlack of available homes-that’s every two seconds.I volunteer at a veterinarian clinic during the summer. Thereisn’t a day when an abandoned pet is not brought in or found wanderingthrough the streets.
The animals are usually mal-nourished, infestedwith worms and fleas, and in some cases near death. It breaks my heartto see those animals suffer and all because somebody didn’t care orthink about what’s best for his or her animal. Clinics and shelters keepthe animals for as long as they can, but they can only hold so manyanimals –not to mention the cost of care. There is no other option buteuthanization; yes, it’s sad but what else is there to do. Until peoplestart waking up and realizing that they need to start doing something toprevent this, it will continue.People will make up the craziest excuses.
“It costs too much!” It willcost you more to care for the puppies created by the dog! If you have alitter and take proper care of it, your cost factors are much more thanthis procedure would ever be. It will also cost less than the vet billsincurred from your male running after the female in heat up the road andgetting injured by a car. There are programs for assistance for thosewho cannot afford to get the procedure done. There are many otherexcuses out there –most being absolutely false, so before you startbelieving things,…
