Each year, approximately 15 million pets are turned into animal shelters across the country. The rest, some 11 million animals are euthanized because no one wants them. A better solution is to limit the number of animals being born until they equal the number of people who want and can care for them. And the best way to do this is to neuter your pets.
Neutering is a simple surgical procedure in which the pet's reproductive organs are removed.
Dogs and cats can be neutered as early as eight weeks or anytime beyond that age. If you have more than one pet, you will find your neutered pets get along better with each other. Neutered pets have twice the average life expectancy, partly because they are less likely to roam and be injured in fights or killed in traffic, but also partly because of a much lower chance of suffering from breast, uterine, prostate, and testicular cancer. You will not have to tolerate stains on the rugs and furniture from unneutered female cats and dogs and spraying from unneutered male cats who are marking their territory. You will not have to fight off suitors.