How many are going to have their cat or dog "fixed" if they are going to

[Valerie5555]

get another pet? How many already had their pets "fixed?"


A calico kitty I had lived to be 17 and a black kitty I had lived to be 15 primarily because they were "fixed."

[dflprincess]

1. I don't have pets of my own but I help out with the vet bills

for my sister-in-laws dogs - the vet's office refers to me as "the aunt". They are both "fixed". If I had my own, they would be too. Not just to prolong their lives, but one trip to the pound and all those unwanted animals is all it should take to convince someone that spaying and neutering is a good thing.

[Valerie5555]

2. Or having to BURY your kitty or pooch like someone I knew did

because the poor animal was struck by a car and killed is another good convincer of why an animal should be "fixed," tho' poor Buddy the Clinton's dog,was fixed too and that still happened to him :( go figure.

[SOteric]

3. Both of my cats

have been neutered. One is 18, one is 5.

[LWolf]

4. My puppy turned 4 mos old this week.

She'll be spayed at 6mos.

[1monster]

5. Unspayed female dogs and cats are at a far greater risk of

mammary cancer if they are not spayed. As the Vet explained it to me, every heat experienced by an unspayed dog or cat increases the chance of mammary cancer by 10 percent.

Unfortunately, she didn't tell me that when my beloved Siamese was a kitten, she told me that after my cat got mammary cancer and had all of her mammary glands removed, to no avail...

Unless you plan to breed your cats and dogs (I did, but she never got big enough to riske it), spay and neuter your animals for their good health.

[ProudGerman]

6. Why breed them?

There are already millions of cats and dogs that get euthanized each year because they are unwanted.

Most of them ended up there because they committed the horrible crime of not being a "cute widdle puppy/kitty" anymore. I know, I've volunteered at the local animal shelter. Most get turned in exactly for that reason.

[1monster]

8. There is a huge demand for certain breeds of cats and dogs...

My sister breeds Persians and never has a bit of trouble placing the kittens with people who pay exobitant amounts for them.

I love Siamese and when the cats that I have now (all rescued, by the way, one who apparently was dumped off by the previous caretaker and two who were placed in a box outside of a department store) pass on to the next astral plane, I will be on the lookout for two more Siamese. I probably will not breed them, but then again, I might. I have had three Siamese cats in my life; they brought a lot of love and joy to my life. I wish I had the offspring of those cats now.

[madrchsod]

7. three dogs

all fixed,around here you get taxed more if they are not. now my birds, that`s something else....