We just covered the potential negative effects of neutering and spaying. Are you thinking this is ammunition to justify not having our pets spayed and neutered? Then, consider this: a surreptitious video taken by a volunteer at the Summer County Animal Control in Gallatin, TN, shows the veterinarian hired to euthanize dogs and cats stepped on them, then injected them through the heart to kill them.
We create a world in which dogs and cats are devalued when we don’t spay and neuter. It’s our unaltered pets that produce unwanted puppies and kittens. One by one, these unwanted animals add up until they become the 10,000,000 euthanized every year.
The veterinarian, Dr. William Baber, who stepped on pets and plunged a needle into their hearts, reflects our nonchalant disregard of pet life. What Dr. Barber has done is to assume that the animals he sees, the millions euthanized, do not matter to society.
Spaying and neutering show how much we love pets and how much we value each individual life. If spayed and neutered pets are at increased health risk after being surgically altered, we can take steps that help prevent these problems. We cannot use the potential for these problems to occur to justify not having pets altered.
Show the Dr. Babers of the world that every pet matters. Every pet deserves a good life and loving arms around it as it passes from this life.
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