Do you spay/neuter your pets?

[jsbaker4404]

Absolutely YES!!!
I'm a vet tech and I constantly deal with people that think it's an "unnecessary surgery". It prevents more overpopulation and is IS for their health.
A male dog can smell a female in heat over a mile away and they will do ANYTHING to get to her. (I've seen them break through windows.)
Males should be neutered to help prevent prostate cancer. Females should be spayed to prevent getting an infected uterus.
It's an ongoing battle to educate people to spay and neuter their pets.

[shetlandponyluvr]

You betcha, both our cats are spayed/neutered (1 girl, 1 boy), and I had our Corgi spayed just last month. I would have loved to have a litter from her, but unfortunately she isn't registered, so I had her fixed instead.

[Needofsaving]

OF COURSE!!!!

As soon as we get a pet, the next day we bring it in to get looked over and then spayed or neutered. I don't want to mess around with babies and trying to find homes for them. I would end up keeping them all and that would not be good. Plus we have a neighbor that I wish would spay/neuter her cats. As much as I love animals, and I do, I get tired of all the cats running around. We live on a busy road and they don't keep them near the house. Many have gotten hit and it just pisses me off when that happens. I go as far as calling them to inform them that one of their cats got hit, and I would appreciate it if they took care of it. I HATE seen dead animals on the road. More people need to do it.

[cfodel]

I always have, but we had quite the chuckle when I got my most recent two done. I had gotten two little girls from someone at work, and took my "fluffy princesses" in to be fixed, even though we were going to keep them inside. Imagine my surprise when I went to pick them up and discovered one was a boy. First words out of my mouth were "OMG, we'd have had kittens!!" I enjoyed the laugh and was glad to be rewarded for being a responsible pet mommy.

[1daygourmet]

Yes, I think it’s very important. We live out in the country, people think because we live out here we can take all the unwanted pets from in town. People are always dropping off there unwanted animals. Not to long ago a new cat appeared in our yard, low and behold it was pregnant. Well, we cared for the cat and kittens, took all 8 kittens into the vet and had all of them fixed before we found new homes for them. That was an expensive stray cat. lol

[latte]

of our 3 cats,all indoor, no possible "escape-ees",we have 2 females -one came from the pound, she was fixed, the other was rescued from the street, not fixed because we dont have the $ to fix her yet and one male who was rescued from this crazy lady who had 60+ cats NONE neutered or spayed, all outdoor and he is fixed, so we have no chance of kittens, unless by chance my orange tabby gets outside(but she knowsbetter, she doesnt go anywhere near the door)

[Trishies13]

Originally Posted by jengirl483

: When i was talking to my vet about my concerns she said she had spayed a rabbit once...never heard of that before...

Heheh i've had 3 rabbits fixed. The first was an only rabbit.. Supposedly they are much more friendly and laid back that way.. Then after that one passed we took in two more that had almost drowned.. who then made 8 more. We found homes for all but 2 of them which we kept.. then had the two males fixed. I definently did notice a difference "handling"wise between fixed and unfixed bunnies.

[sweetdeals]

yes we do.

[Nerice]

Yes, even get the feral cats fixed as well (city pays for them, just have to bring them in and take them back).

[iamsank]

Yes, but our neighbor doesn't spay/neuter and my girlfriend ends up adopting at least a kitty a year from them! We need to spay the source!