GOOD FOR PETS:

Spaying and neutering can help cats live longer healthier lives and prevent serious health problems, which can be difficult to treat. Spaying eliminates the possibility of uterine or ovarian cancer and greatly reduces the incidence of breast cancer in females, as well as life-threatening pyometra (inflammation of the uterus). Unaltered males are prone to testicular cancer and prostate problems, perianal tumors, and hernias.

Male cats who are not neutered fight a great deal more than altered cats, and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) is spread by bites.

GOOD FOR YOU:

Spayed and neutered pets have better temperaments and can become more affectionate companions.

Spaying and neutering at an early age may prevent behavioral problems such as territorial marking (spraying strong-smelling urine on surfaces), dominance, aggression such as biting (toward people or other animals), and a roaming instinct.

A spayed female doesn’t have estrus, or heat cycles that result in crying and howling. Females in heat can cry incessantly, show nervous behavior, and attract unwanted male animals. This heat cycle can last anywhere from 3 to 15 days and occur 3 or more times a year.

Male cats who are neutered are much less likely to run away from home.

Even if you have no cats, or prefer dogs as pets, you are affected because millions of tax dollars are spent annually to care for lost, abandoned, and unwanted cats.

When you spay or neuter your cat, or a rescued cat, you’re rewarded by knowing that you’ve done something good for an animal, for the community, and for the larger society.

GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY:

Communities spend millions of taxpayer dollars a year trying to cope with the surplus of cats. These public costs include services such as investigating animal cruelty, humanely capturing stray cats, sheltering lost and homeless cats, and euthanizing unwanted cats.

Shelters’ resources are stretched and caring shelter workers suffer stress when they’re forced to euthanize one animal after another.

Spaying and neutering promotes ideals reflective of a humane and compassionate community.

GOOD FOR THE LARGER SOCIETY:

Spaying and neutering pets teaches children responsible pet ownership behavior.

Compassion toward the problem of cat overpopulation and the suffering they experience promotes such compassion toward all living beings and builds a better world by teaching kindness and reverence for all life.

 

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