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If your pet is over eight weeks old and hasn’t been spayed or neutered, you should make an appointment with your veterinarian. Spaying and neutering pets offers health and safety benefits and reduces the risk of injury, illness, disease, and behavioral problems. Read through these benefits of spaying or neutering your pet.
Help Your Pet Live Longer
Pets that aren’t spayed or neutered are more likely to develop certain illnesses associated with their reproductive organs. Additionally, pets that are looking for a mate may wander miles from home, increasing their risk of being hit by a car, becoming injured, or suffering from dehydration, exhaustion, heat illness, and starvation. Pets that find a mate are at risk of fights with other aggressive animals, as well as exposure to disease and illness.
Improve Their Health
Spaying or neutering your pet will improve their long term health. Neutered dogs and cats will not develop testicular cancer. Neutering also reduces the risk of pancreatic cancer. Spayed dogs and cats are at a much lower risk of breast cancer, and certain illnesses and infections associated with the uterus and ovaries.
Reduce Behavioral Issues
When pets are in heat, they display many unwanted behavior issues. Male pets will try to mount or hump other animals, humans, and inanimate objects. They will urinate inside and outside to mark their territory. They are also likely to try to escape the house or yard in search of a mate, and may display aggressive behavior or get into fights. Female pets will urinate around the house and make loud vocalizations while in heat.
Avoid Unwanted Pregnancies
When your pet is spayed or neutered, you won’t need to worry about the financial and emotional responsibilities associated with an unwanted pregnancy. You won’t need to care for your pet during pregnancy and birth, schedule veterinary care and visits, or find homes for puppies and kittens. You also won’t be contributing to cat and dog overpopulation.
Make an appointment with your local veterinarian today to discuss the benefits of spaying or neutering your pet.