spaying and nuetering

I've always spayed or neutered my pets as I never wanted to become a professional breeder. Also, my vet informed me that it spares them from developing further health problems in the future as the female dogs are more inclined to develop certain forms of cancer. My daughter began working in an animal shelter a few months ago and she says that huge trailers come in three to four times a week with crates of unwanted puppies. Dogs roam around in crates for months at a time going unadopted. If that's not incentive enough to spay or neuter, I don't know what is.

If your dog or cat is not an exemplary specimen of his/her breed, and I mean they've been health tested, have working or conformation titles and are in great physical condition, then they should not be bred. ever. period. MOST pets fall into this category and should therefore be spayed or neutered. If the animal has nothing to offer, then don't create more unwanted pets.

I would only do that if their health was at risk. I see n reason for it if the animal is healthy. Kai is fixed only because he was a welfare dog. They do that before hey rehome them. Tara is not fixed. My hubby has been talking about it because he hates the mess when she comes into season. This is just so expensive, £145.00! I know we have insurance but we have to pay up front. We can't afford that. It is a discussion we will have again in the near future. We don't have to worry about any dogs getting to Tara. She is never walked off leash. If Tara has any health issues, then I will get her fixed but not now. She is only 2. Once they are fixed you can't show them.

If the dog is not going to be used as a stud, then why not. getting them neiutered greatly reduces the risk of renal and testicular cancer, so i think its more about health issues as well as unwanted animals.

I just had my dog spayed a week ago. She's been in heat twice since we've had her and the whole time I'd be scared she was going to get pregnant. She has the most perfect personality and once they have puppies they change. All the girl dogs that I've had in the past have changed after they had puppies. Plus when they're in heat it is DISGUSTING! Dog blood everywhere. Drips and spatters all over the kitchen floor so I had to mop the kitchen 2-3 times a day and continuously shampoo the carpets and anything else she would sit on until she was done being in heat. I ALSO just had a baby who is now 9 months old and is starting to crawl and get into everything and I'm not about to have her crawling all over dog period...period!

My sister has two cats and they are both fixed. It's a good idea to have it done unless it is your intention to breed your pets. I think fixed animals make better pets. They tend to be more affectionate because they don't go through hormonal mood changes. Sometimes I wish I could get my parrots fixed, but that sort of surgery is very dangerous for them. When one of my parrots gets "excited" he always tries to molest my foot. If I don't let him, then he gets violent. Luckily he doesn't do that as much as he used to because he figured out how to "play" with his toys. LOL

I have a cat and a dog. A Norwegian Forest Cat cross who will be 6 next month and a purebred registered Siberian Husky who will be 5 the month after. Both of my animals are spayed. I spayed my cat because there are too many stray cats running around without homes. She was going to be put down because her first owner couldn't find her a new home and couldn't keep her and the shelter in the area was turning away stray cats. Do I want to contribute more to that problem? No, I don't. She's a mixed breed cat, and I adore her, but there's no need to create more of her either. Besides that, female cats in heat are extremely difficult to deal with and living in a small apartment, I wasn't prepared to deal with a yowling female looking for a mate for 2 weeks every 6 months. My Siberian Husky is, as I said, purebred and registered, she's also a former showdog/Canadian Champion but she has been spayed because I don't believe she has anything to offer to the Siberian breed that a better dog couldn't offer. I've had tons of people wanting a puppy from her, and gets dozens of compliments every day on what a beautiful dog she is, but there are better dogs out there. We just had a lot of fun playing in the show-ring and after that was all done and over with, she went in and got her girly bits removed. Besides that, I know from experience what a huge undertaking it is to breed dogs. I grew up helping my mom whelp and raise dozens of litters. I cried when a puppy was born stillborn, bit my nails on the way into the vet with a distressed female in mid-whelp crying from the pain, held a female's head while she was having a c-section done, syringe fed 8 hour old puppies while their mother laid unresponsive and prone from anesthetic beside them, cleaned up hundreds and hundreds of piles of wormy puppy poop and had to say goodbye to all those little cuties when they went to their new homes. Breeding dogs is best left to the pros (and I don't mean commercial breeding facilities!). There's this old myth that all dogs have to be bred once before they'll calm down and grow up. It's a myth for a reason. If you want your pet to calm down, get them spayed or neutered. It prevents cervical cancer in females, testicular cancer in males and maintains another 3 years of your female's life. What's not to love?