Saturday, November 6, 2010
why you should spay or neuter
So, I'm a big animal lover and I HATE going to visit animal shelters and seeing all the dogs that could possibly be put to sleep just because a breeder or someones family couldn’t find homes for their puppies. I don’t believe in kill shelters, I believe every dog should have a chance and not have a time limit before his life is ended just because no one has adopted him yet. But some of the benefits of spaying females are that there are no heat cycles therefore, the male dogs will not be attracted to the females and will not want to mate,there are fewer chances of tumors, and ovarian and uterine cancer is reduced and almost eliminated especially if they are spayed before their first heat cycle. For families, another good reason is that it helps dogs and cats live longer, healthier lives and for males it’s the same but it almost eliminates the chances of them getting testicular cancer. It also makes the dog less aggressive and hyper and they will be less likely to roam, meaning less chances of injury from car accidents. It helps reduce overpopulation of puppies and kittens which is good because most places have a max capacity and have to euthanize the animals that have been there for a long time. Cats are 45 times as reproductive and dogs are 15 times as reproductive as people. When a female dog is pregnant, it also is common for dogs to go through complications throughout their pregnancy, such as dystoica. Dystocia means that the puppies are larger than the mom’s birth canal so the puppies get stuck in the canal and die and the mother may also die from the decomposed fetuses. There are so many more things that can go wrong with a pregnant female dog but I won’t go on about it and bore everyone haha. I have two dogs myself- a boxer and a great dane, and in 2 weeks I’m saving a deaf great dane that was going to be put to sleep just because he is deaf.
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I believe the same as you do about spaying and neutering your pets. I have rescued many animals and found great homes for them. I have a boxer,Chloe, who we found in a Walmart parking lot not much older than 5 weeks old. We shortly got my catahoula, Charlie from a shelter and our American Eskimo, Isebella, we got from a puppy mill.
ReplyDeleteI have taken in a momma cat that had 6 kittens and got homes for all of them and momma cat.
I'm about to get an Siberian Husky soon that lives next door. She has had a hard live and she is just 2 years old. She was beaten as a puppy and the people that have her now rescued her, but even those owners don't want her now and have suggested that they were going to kill her "one way or another" so I told them I would take her. It isn't the animals fault, so we need to have the people to understand that it is very important to fix your pets.
Thats awesome that you're just as big of an animal lover.I got my boxer from the animal shelter in tyler and she was abused also, so she is scared of EVERYONE but me.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. All our pets have been spayed or neutered. I have two cats and a dog. We rescued one kitty that my brother found behind a bowling ally. She was only a few weeks old at the time and starving. She's my kitty now and I love her to death! (: Our dog we took from my brothers friend that was going into the military and had nothing else he could do with her cause he didn't want to put her in a shelter. Also my grandparents wanted a dog so we decided to go to a shelter and adopt. We found a pug that had been abused and was actually missing an eye. It was really sad, but now he is in a very loving home and is super spoiled now haha.
ReplyDeletePound puppies are the best dogs and I've never had a dog be so loving.I wish I lived on a huge farm so I could adopt all the dogs at the kill shelters and then find them homes so they won't die. Eventually I want to open my own business of an animal rescue
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