Last week, we discussed the option of spaying/neutering as a method of pregnancy prevention. This is such an important issue that we feel it should be given even more prominence than the articles we usually present. Today’s publication is taken from an editorial I wrote for a GSPCA Newsletter, some time ago. The arguments are still valid so many years later, perhaps even more so.
My colleague, Dr Waldron wrote in that same Newsletter about the unhappy experiences of abandoned animals. One of the reasons given for carrying out what seems to be such a cruel and dastardly act (“straying” the animal) is that owners cannot cope with the puppies and kittens that are presented to them twice a year by their pets. Well,