Top 5 Benefits of Spaying and Neutering
Do you or don’t you make that appointment to spay and neuter your dog or cat? You should carefully consider any surgical procedure for your pet. There are health benefits as well as practical, economic, and community benefits to spaying or neutering your pet.
Why Vets Recommend Spaying & Neutering
Helps Prevent Pet Homelessness
Pet overpopulation causes problems such as:
- Destroying landscaping and soiling parks and streets
- Overturning garbage cans
- Scaring children and the elderly
- Cause noise and other disturbances
- Cause automobile accidents
- Killing other pets or livestock
- Potentially spread serious diseases such as rabies
Through taxpayers and private donations, over a billion dollars are spent each year to handle the problems of pet overpopulation in our country. Thankfully, some of these unwanted animals are rescued, but many are not and end up with an extremely difficult life.
Spay and Neuter Clinics such as Chipman Road Animal Clinic truly offer the most humane and effective solutions to prevent pet homelessness. The benefits of spaying and neutering are in the best interest of our pets and offer a better experience for the overall community.
Increases Pet Health
One mishap can result in a litter of puppies or kittens you may not have the patience, time or resources to deal with. The extra expense for veterinary care and extra food will be a hit to your pet-care budget. And then, you will be responsible for finding homes for those puppies or kittens! The more you consider the pet care costs of taking care of more puppies or kittens the more you will realize the cost to spay or neuter your pet will be a bargain.
You can actually help your pets live a longer, healthier life by spaying female dogs and cats or neutering male dogs and cats.
Spaying Female Dogs: Spaying female dogs protects them from life threatening uterine infections, uterine cancer and other cancers of the reproductive system
Neutering Male Dogs: Neutered male dogs will not get testicular cancer and the rates of prostate cancers are reduced significantly.
Spaying Female Cats: As with female dogs, spaying female cats will protect them from uterine cancer and cancers of the reproductive system.
Neutering Male Cats: Neutered male cats, like neutered male dogs, have reduced chances for prostate cancer and are spared from testicular cancer.
Reduces Bad Pet Behavior
Your pet’s behavior will be easier to manage if they are “fixed”. (“Fixed refers to pets who have been spayed or neutered) Suppressing the natural urge of your pet to mate is frustrating and exhausting.
Males attracted to female dogs in heat are aggressive and driven to roam from home in search of a mate. Many times male dogs get lost, get into fights with other animals, or get hit by a car. Neutering male dogs will suppress all kinds of aggressive behavior.
Unwanted behaviors such as spraying urine to mark territories, excessive barking and the inappropriate mounting behaviors males use to demonstrate their dominance will be greatly reduced by neutering male dogs.
Spay & Neuter At Chipman Road Animal Clinic
