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Quality Veterinary Medicine :: Spay / neuter
Spay and Neuter Services for Pet Health Reasons
Let’s look at some astonishing statistics about animals that are spayed and neutered.
- Female dogs that have been spayed prior to their first heat have a relative risk of 0.05% chance of developing mammary cancer.
- Female dogs spayed after their second heat have a relative risk of 26%.
Therefore, our veterinarians recommend spaying females before six months of age. Spaying also eliminates the risk of a pyometra (infected uterus) developing and requiring an emergency surgery to save the pet’s life. Furthermore, undesirable heat cycles are also avoided.
- Male pets will not develop testicular cancer if they are neutered.
- Males are less likely to roam, dig under or jump over fences looking for a girlfriend after they’re neutered.
- Males are less likely to demonstrate undesirable behaviors if they are neutered.
For this and other reasons, our veterinarians recommend that males should be neutered before six months of age.
Euthanasia due to pet overpopulation is the number one cause of death of animals in the United States.
Even in progressive Raleigh, and Morrisville, North Carolina, there are enough pets for each of us to have nine pets, and days when local animal shelters are forced to euthanize over 100 animals daily.
Furthermore, in seven years, one female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 kittens. Prevent health risks and do your part to control pet overpopulation by having your pet spayed or neutered.
Owners who spay or neuter their pets enjoy an average of two to three years more of purring and tail wagging than those who don’t.
