Neutering Saves Lives

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An estimated eight million homeless animals in the United States are victims of euthanization as a means to keep the population under control (humanesociety.org). Not just sick or old animals are subject to these humane deaths, but healthy, young ones that deserved a good home. Many veterinarians tell their clients to get their furry companions neutered, due to this over population. However, people use inadequate excuses such as breeding to leave their comrade intact. Thus, dogs and other animals should be neutered or spayed due to the fact that there are too many pets in the USA and neutering and spaying reduces many health risks known in animals.
The population of New York City is about equal to the amount of homeless animals in the whole US. The number varies from state to state, as The Humane Society specified: “…in some states there are as many as 300,000 homeless animals euthanized in animal shelters every year…nationwide, more than 2.7 million healthy, adoptable cats and dogs are euthanized in shelters annually.” (humanesociety.org). Homeless, intact animals have offspring, and the offspring get caught by Animal Control. The animals then get put in shelters, and are usually euthanized. Oxford Pets and the Humane Society both broke down how many animals, usually cats and dogs, are euthanized: about 10,000 per day (humanesociety.com), or about one every eleven seconds (oxfordpets.com). While there are no-kill shelters, they become extremely crowded, very quickly. If people simply neutered their pets, these excessive yet necessary deaths would not occur, and their comrades would be significantly healthier.
While some don’t want to get a simple surgery for their companion, there are several health benefits to neutered and...

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...its such as breeding to gain from not neutering animals, the population of homeless pets is too big already. All in all, neutering should be done to protect both present and future generations of all domesticated animals.

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