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Dalyssa Lynch
Mr. Bernhardt
English Composition 1
14 October 2015
Why Should You Get Your Pets Spayed?
Do you have a dog? Maybe his name is Mr. Whiskers and every time you take him for a walk he sniffs every possible thing there is to smell, even though you have assured him many times that all rocks smell the same. Imagine Mr. Whiskers living under a bridge cold, alone and hungry.
Pet owners everywhere are unaware that there is a huge over population of pets causing many to live on the streets starving or waiting in a shelter to be put down. “It’s impossible to determine how many stray dogs and cats live in the United States, estimates for cats alone range up to seventy million.” (ASPCA)
The amount of homeless pets would drop drastically if every pet owner had …show more content…
Surveys indicate that as many as 85% of dogs hit by cars
are unaltered. Intact male cats living outside have been shown to live on average less than two
years. Feline Immunodeficiency Syndrome is spread by bites and intact cats fight a great deal
more than altered cats.” (Spayusa) http://www.spayusa.org/benefits.php
Of course, having your pet spayed or neutered is the choice of the pets owner. But should it be? There could be laws put in place to have all pet spaying/ neutering mandatory. “In California, in 2008, municipal shelters reporting to the California Department of Public Health took in 833,304 dogs and cats. Of those, 429,987, or 51%, were killed. That would be a sad enough number for the whole country but it's just for the state of California. (The American Dog Magazine ) All pets should be spayed so that we can decrease the amount of household animals in the world, but the exception of the dogs/cats that don’t have owners. No one wants to pay to have a pet they don’t even own spayed/neutered. Having a small number of pets not spayed or nurtured keeps from the species from going extinct while still decreasing the
Dalyssa Lynch
Mr. Bernhardt
English Composition 1
14 October 2015
Why Should You Get Your Pets Spayed?
Do you have a dog? Maybe his name is Mr. Whiskers and every time you take him for a walk he sniffs every possible thing there is to smell, even though you have assured him many times that all rocks smell the same. Imagine Mr. Whiskers living under a bridge cold, alone and hungry.
Pet owners everywhere are unaware that there is a huge over population of pets causing many to live on the streets starving or waiting in a shelter to be put down. “It’s impossible to determine how many stray dogs and cats live in the United States, estimates for cats alone range up to seventy million.” (ASPCA)
The amount of homeless pets would drop drastically if every pet owner had …show more content…
Surveys indicate that as many as 85% of dogs hit by cars
are unaltered. Intact male cats living outside have been shown to live on average less than two
years. Feline Immunodeficiency Syndrome is spread by bites and intact cats fight a great deal
more than altered cats.” (Spayusa) http://www.spayusa.org/benefits.php
Of course, having your pet spayed or neutered is the choice of the pets owner. But should it be? There could be laws put in place to have all pet spaying/ neutering mandatory. “In California, in 2008, municipal shelters reporting to the California Department of Public Health took in 833,304 dogs and cats. Of those, 429,987, or 51%, were killed. That would be a sad enough number for the whole country but it's just for the state of California. (The American Dog Magazine ) All pets should be spayed so that we can decrease the amount of household animals in the world, but the exception of the dogs/cats that don’t have owners. No one wants to pay to have a pet they don’t even own spayed/neutered. Having a small number of pets not spayed or nurtured keeps from the species from going extinct while still decreasing the