To anyone who adopts or buys a new puppy or kitten, or even an old animal, please get them spayed or neutered.

Approximately 2,500 puppies and kittens are born each hour in the United States, and there is now way to provide a home for each and everyone. Owner’s animals will get pregnant and have babies and they are now faced with the expense and stress of raising them all and finding good homes. Instead of being good people and not abandoning them, people are dumping animals in parking lots, trash cans, alleys, and at local Humane Societies that are already over packed with not much more room. Spaying or neutering your dog or cat could help end this problem.

Many believe it is cruel to take away an animal’s reproductive organs. People believe that it will affect their animal’s health and make them fat or lazy. These are myths and actually getting your animal spayed or neutered helps increase the chance of living a healthy life. It will take a female’s stress and discomfort away during heat, and reduce the chance of uterine cancer and greatly reduces the chance of mammary cancer. Males will be much less likely to fight and roam and reduce the chance of testicular cancer.

Some feel that the procedure is dangerous and the thought of putting their animal “under” scares them.

The actual surgery only takes a max of 20-30 minutes and after only a few days recuperation.

If one doesn’t spay or neuter their animal and it happens to get outside, there are many stray animals around all neighborhoods. Here a few statistics of the overpopulation problem in the United States: 6-8million dogs and cats enter shelters each year, and 3-4million dogs and cats are euthenized by shelters each year.