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Top 10 Reasons to
Spay & Neuter
It Could Save Your Pets Life
*Bayside Animal Hospital is
promoting a low-cost spay/neuter program for those in financial need. For
more info click
here*
1. Neutered
males are less tempted to leave your property and cross that dangerous
street looking for a mate. Of the male animals hit by a car and taken to
Bayside Animal Hospital for treatment approximately 90% are not neutered.
2. Spaying your
pet before she reaches her first estrus cycle will greatly reduce her
chances of developing breast cancer and also eliminates the threat of
uterine and ovarian cancer.
3. Having
puppies or kittens is time consuming, demanding, and expensive. By four
weeks of age a litter of four, eight, or possibly fourteen is active, messy,
noisy, and potentially destructive. The cost of stud fees, veterinary care,
advertising, and daily care and feeding of the litter consumes most of the
"profit." Finding good homes for the kittens and puppies can be difficult
and shelters are already crowded with unwanted pets.
4. Neutered
males are less aggressive toward other males and are not distracted by
females in heat. The threat of abscesses caused by bites and diseases (like
feline leukemia) transmitted by fighting are greatly reduced.
5. An obese,
lazy animal is the result of excess food and insufficient exercise, not
spaying and neutering.
6. Dogs and cats
do not give birth at our convenience; thus children are often in bed or in
school at the time of delivery. If you think that letting your dog or cat
have a litter would be educational for your children, contact your vet or
library for other educational alternatives.
7. Neutered cats
are less likely to spray. Neutered dogs are less likely to mark their
territory with urine.
8. Spaying your
female pet will eliminate the possibility of pyometra (uterine infection)
which is a life-threatening condition that requires emergency surgery.
9. Neutering
your male pet will eliminate testicular tumors, decrease the possibility of
perianal tumors and hernias, and may prevent prostate problems.
10. Each year,
millions of unwanted cats and dogs are euthanized (put to sleep) at shelters
across the country. Many of these are the result of accidental breeding by
free-roaming unaltered pets. The more pets spayed and neutered the fewer
cats and dogs will have to be destroyed.
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