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Tips Spay & Neter Myths:It is too expensive to spay or neuter my pet. Adequately caring for, and finding homes for, even one litter of kittens or puppies will cost substantially more than spaying or neutering your animal. If you are in financial difficulty, POPPA (Pet Over-Population Prevention Advocates, Inc.) has Spay & Neuter Fund Coupons that are good for discounts at several local vet clinics, and a program you can apply for that will provide spay/neuter assistance. I will find homes for the puppies/kittens. If not neutered, pets can average two or more litters per year, and for every ten kittens and puppies born there are an average of three homes available. In two years, at that rate, assuming you aren’t getting the puppies/kittens fixed either, with an average litter of only three, you will have found homes for 40 animals, but you will still have 81 at home, and more on the way. My pet is too young. Cats and dogs are fully sexually mature and capable of reproducing as young as 5 months!!! My pet will get fat and lazy if it is neutered. Altered pets will only get fat and lazy if they are overfed and/or under-exercized, just like people. If an unaltered male looks thin, so would you if you roamed miles every night looking for females in heat. Having one litter is good for my pet. There is no medical evidence to support this popular myth, however there is a lot of evidence that unneutered animals are more prone to tumors, injuries, illness, and skin conditions. A cat or dog left in the wild can fend for itself. House cats and domestic dogs are NOT adapted to living wild and do not magically acquire survival skills by being abandoned. They lead short lives full of disease, trauma, and starvation, afraid of people but unlikely to survive without them. |