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It's pretty fucked how normalized it is to adopt/buy a pet and castrate it
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I didn't say you shouldn't do it. Just that's it's weird...like taking a domesticated animal you saved from a shelter to chop it's balls off at the doctor is really crazy from an outside perspective lol like it's really fucked up
The reason why castration is a common practice is because 1) the population has to be controlled so we don't have lots of abandoned animals living miserable lives on the streets and 2) because it can prevent some diseases like cancer.
Most serious ngos that help stray animals do it before putting them out for adoption for those reasons. Helping with the temper of the animal is just a welcome side effect.
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Less. But it's very strange. Like I want to know why the first neutering happened
Yeah it's "really crazy" if you choose to ignore every single beneficial reason behind the decision.
It's fucked up to prevent the awful circumstances you just pulled that animal out of from occurring again with several more animals?
No, it is important to do it, all it takes is one unplanned escape and you've got a pregnant dog or something, this is exactly what happened to my wife's family and they are very much against selling or giving dogs away, so instead they raised all of 9 of them, which they loved but the house was crazy due to it. Now they have all their dogs fixed, but ignoring the population thing and preventing unwanted pregnancy of pets, at least with dogs, not doing so can end up being bad in the long run for their health, I didn't have my dog spayed when she was younger because I thought I may want puppies, I was young and dumb and soon realised I didn't want to do that to her, but by that point it was too late to easily spay her safely due to age, now every time she comes into heat I am worried due to all the complications that can happen when an older dog comes out of heat, in fact I spent all September having to deal with these exact issues after she had an infection internally when she came out of heat and it was a nightmare of worry non stop even with treatment that she may not make it due to the insane bleeding and infection it caused, she's fine now but when she comes into heat again the risk is there again.
Please everyone spay and fix your pets, if you value them as family members there are a lot of bad complications to their health, especially later in life, that can be avoided by doing it and help them have a better chance to live a lot longer.
Please everyone spay and fix your pets, if you value them as family members there are a lot of bad complications to their health, especially later in life, that can be avoided by doing it and help them have a better chance to live a lot longer.
Not only that, I hate to say it but domestic cats are way too succesful in the wild and have a serious impact on biodiversity, leading to the extinction of various species of birds and lizards on their habitats.
Please don't leave your cats outside your house and sterilize them so they don't have babies roaming on the wild.
https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/upl...ive-cat-impacts-on-endangered-vertebrates.pdf
https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/upl...f-birds-killed-by-domestic-cats-in-Canada.pdf
https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/upl...ve-predators-and-global-biodiversity-loss.pdf
https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Loss_et_al._2013-Impacts_Outdoor_Cats.pdf
https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Lowe-et-al.-2004-IUCN-top-100-invasives.pdf
Bruh this sounds like a 'smoked weed for the first time' level take. How deeply are you even thinking about this?
No. Noone has ever put any thought into it. None whatsoever.
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It's not more fucked than that...but the fact that we got to the point where it needs to be done is super weird. I'm not saying no one shouldn't spay and neuter their pets...but it is very bizarre that history and other circumstances have led society here.
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So just a heads up but at least here when you rescue a dog at a shelter or from a rescue group you have to agree to have it spayed or fixed if it is too young to have had it done yet or just hasn't had it done, because it ain't weird, it's a good idea to not continue the cycle of non stop over breeding that leads to more dogs needing to be rescued from bad homes or abandoned on the streets, when I met my wife in Houston and every time I've gone there to spend time with her family I'm always shocked and horrified how every day or two we would see another dog abandoned on the street, often in awful condition or clearly having been used for puppy farms, my mother in law now rescues dogs who are abandoned or abused, or even goes to kill shelters to get any she can before they kill them, and then she works with a rescue group to find them suitable homes all over the usa, it isn't uncommon for her to have 2-4 rescue dogs in the house for a few weeks at a time, non stop, year round, and often more if those dogs have puppies, and she keeps them at the house until they can be taken to better homes, so ask yourself if a simple thing like fixing pets is worth not having all those animals suffering? Why you would find that weird I don't know.
Incredibly, your the first human to have thought critically about this. Hats off to you.
Animals are fixed to prevent overpopulation, so that less of them have to be put down. So your choices are: A) catch, kill, and dispose of millions of cats and dogs or B) spay or neuter them. Which one sounds less fucked to you?
Superbad take. All larger-scale concerns aside, individual health outcomes are almost universally better for pet animals that are spay/neuter (i.e., they live longer, healthier lives - they're happier, you're happier.)
I'm having trouble seeing the problem with pets being healthier for longer. Y'all needJesus a veterinarian.
I'm having trouble seeing the problem with pets being healthier for longer. Y'all need
I promise you that animals don't care about whether they have their nuts or not. If anything, it gives them one less thing to worry about.
How is it bizarre? Animals are useful, so people keep them around. In the absence of predators and the need to find food, animals fuck a lot and overpopulate. Cue culling or, more preferably, population control via castration.
Are you sure you thought critically about this?
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