Quick Spay/Neuter Benefits Sheet

Pet overpopulation is a big problem. As these statistics show, in order to help keep up with the current flood of puppies and kittens, every person would have to own two dogs and six cats at all times.

A household of five would have to house ten dogs and thirty cats! Adoption alone is obviously not the answer. Altering your pet is. Please spay or neuter your dogs and cats.

All pets should be surgically neutered for many reasons:

Females - (spaying - ovario-hysterectomy)

 prevents sign of estrus (heat)
 prevents blood stains on the carpet from the canine heat cycle
 decreases surplus of puppies and kittens
 decreases the chance of developing breast tumors later in life
 decreases the chance of cystic ovaries and uterine infections
 later in life

Males - (neutering - castration)

 decreases the desire to roam the neighborhood
 decreases aggression and the pets become more loving (more
 affectionate)
 decreases incidence of prostate cancer later in life
 prevents odor of tomcat urine
 prevents tomcat spraying and marking furniture and walls

Facts

Spaying does not cause a pet to get fat or lazy. This comes from over-feeding and poor exercise.  Personalities are not altered by spaying. Personalities do not fully develop until two years of age. Aggressiveness and viciousness are not the result of surgery. Personalities will only get better.  Surgical risk is very slight due to modern anesthesia and techniques, but there is always some small risk when an anesthetic is used.

It is much easier on the pet to be spayed before going through a heat cycle, due to the smaller size of the reproductive tract.  The best age to spay or neuter pets is 6 to 8 months of age. Surgery is performed painlessly while your pet is under general anesthesia. Post-surgical pain is minimal. Most pets go home the same day surgery is performed.

Unwanted animals are becoming a very real concern. Stray animals can easily become a public nuisance; soiling parks and streets, ruining shrubs, frightening children or elderly people, creating noise or other disturbances, causing automobile accidents, and sometimes even killing livestock or other pets. As a potential source of rabies and other diseases, they can become a public health hazard. The capture, impoundment, and eventual destruction of unwanted animals will cost taxpayers millions of dollars each year.