Animal Aid & Advice - Why should you neuter your pet?

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Animal Aid & Advice considers it very important that pet animals should be neutered in order to help reduce the appalling number of unwanted and homeless animals. There are no disadvantages in getting both male and female animals neutered.

Cats

Unneutered male cats are much more likely to wander away from home, become victims of street accidents, get wounded or contract serious, sometimes fatal, diseases through cat fights, not to mention leaving a strong, unpleasant odour in and around the home when they spray to mark their territory.

Unneutered female cats and any resulting kittens are also at risk from sick, unneutered tom cats and there are not enough good, responsible homes for all the kittens born. Even if your female cat never goes outside, being unneutered but unmated can disturb her psychologically and may also lead to womb infections.

Rabbits

Unneutered male rabbits can be aggressive towards humans and other rabbits and often spray, in a similar fashion to tom cats. Neutering leads to a more social, contented pet and can allow male rabbits to live with companions of either sex, if properly introduced.

Unneutered female rabbits may also be aggressive and are at great risk from uterine cancer – it is estimated that some 1 in 5 female rabbits die from this disease.

Neutering will not change your pet’s nature. On the contrary, it will make him/her healthier and happier. And it is a fallacy that a female animal should have at least one litter – no vet would tell you that. Normally a female cat can be neutered from six months and a male cat from seven months.

Animal Aid & Advice may be able to advise you on cheaper than usual neutering.

We feel so strongly about the necessity of neutering pets that any potential owner of AA&A kittens (cat or rabbit) must agree to get them neutered at the relevant age.

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