The Benefits Of Neutering Your Pet (Part 1)

You’re trying to decide to neuter your pet. Are there disadvantages and advantages? Also, what can you expect from going forward with it?

When you search the Internet, you’re rarely shown both sides of the argument. In fact, aside from a few cases of poor health (making surgery a problem), or actually wanting the dog or cat to reproduce (such as a show cat or dog), there are very few reasons to avoid neutering your cat or dog.

Many concerns about neutering your dog or cat involve our own feelings on the topic. What seems to be major surgery to us is not the same to our dogs and cats. While there is the instinct to breed built into all creatures, there appears to be no ill effects from not actually reproducing.

Neutering your pet can also prevent problems in the home. During heat, pets can make messes with discharges or spraying, can have behavioral issues, can disturb people with mating activities and noise, and really become an annoyance. Neutering makes all this cease, and the pet is more even tempered.

Neutering helps reduce the dog and cat population. Although puppies and kittens are cute, few owners are willing to raise a full litter as they grow. These pets must go some place, and so are sometimes set ‘free’ or put in animal shelters, possibly dying there. Unwanted litters also result in more homeless cats and dogs, and increased problems in urban areas. As well, the life of a feral former pet is not good, so neutering prevents any pet from ending up like that.

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