If you love animals and want to help them, spaying or neutering is the place to start. Spaying or neutering gives you a healthier pet, increases your pet s life expectancy, and helps reduce the staggering number of animals that must be put to death in shelters. As long as these birth rates exist, there will never be enough homes for all the animals. Pet overpopulation is a tragedy of huge proportions.
Unwanted animals suffer from disease, parasites, starvation, injury, abuse, and finally, death.
They all die an early death when they are left on the streets to fend for themselves. Even when an animal is brought into a shelter, it will most likely have to be killed because there isn't a home available for it and the shelter doesn't have enough money to take care of it. If you have ever walked through your local animal shelter, you know it is a heart-breaking experience. An estimated ten million dogs and cats are put to death in shelters each year in the United States because there are not enough homes to place them in. Most of these are young puppies and kittens.