Monday Musing; Fix Your Pet!

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Fix your Pet, it’s the kindest thing you can do.

Pet overpopulation is at crisis levels in Ontario. Each year, tens of thousands of cats and dogs end up on the streets, where they fall victim to neglect or abuse, or in shelters in search of new homes. Spay and neutering can reduce shelter intake and euthanasia. Fixing your pet reduces health risks and improves behaviour in cats and dogs.

From the OSPCA Fix your Pet Website; please read Myths and Facts of Fixing your Pet:

FACTS:
  • Pet overpopulation is at crisis levels in Ontario.
  • Each year, tens of thousands of dogs and cats end up on the streets, where they fall victim to neglect and abuse, or in shelters in search of new homes.
  • Spaying and neutering can reduce shelter intake and euthanasia.
  • Fixing your pet reduces health risks and improves behaviour in cats and dogs.
Myths:
  • Fixing my pet will make him/her overweight…
    Fixing your pet should not result in weight gain if your pet receives a healthy diet and sufficient exercise.
  • Fixing my pet interferes with nature…
    Domesticated dogs and cats are completely dependent on humans. It is our responsibility as their guardians to ensure that the number of companion animals born does not exceed the number of available homes.
  • All animals have the right to have one litter…
    Spaying a female cat or dog before she goes into heat even once will greatly reduce her risk of developing mammary, ovarian and uterine cancer.

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