July 1, 2011: 10,000 Reasons to Spay or Neuter Your Pet
26 Jun
Part of the reason Miss Sofie is with me is because there was literally NO ROOM AT THE RESCUE. Sadly, this is true for many rescues.
Talk with your vet. In almost all cases, your vet will advise you to spay or neuter your pet. It’ll be less expensive to keep your pet, too. In some counties it costs $100 to license an intact pet but only $25 to license a neutered pet. And if your pet runs away, it costs less to spring a neutered pet than an intact one.
More importantly, you can rest assured that your pet won’t contribute to the over population of pets.
I’ll never forget this one day on the beach when a woman told me she wanted to breed her English Mastiff bitch to another English Mastiff and had hoped that there would be an “accidental” breeding at the beach because “she wanted her sons to witness the birth.” I suggested that she take them to the Maternity Ward a few miles away and ask if one of the women would mind having additional people present to witness the birth. Why settle for the miracle of canine birth when you can see the real thing!? I didn’t get more graphic, but I think she understood that I thought she was a raving idiot!
First, a professional breeder carefully selects pairings. (Unless their idiot house guest thinks a rickety old baby gate is sufficient to keep a dog away from a bitch in heat.) Second, if you bought the dog for under $5000, you probably don’t have “breeding quality”, but “pet quality”. It’s not something the breeder chose to keep. The dog should probably be altered.
But, like Dennis Miller on a rant, I’ve digressed. Here’s what I want you to see. Look at these numbers posted by ONE shelter in Los Angeles and decide for yourself.
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