Help an Animal // Spay/Neuter Immediately

On the Home Front: You Can Help by Making Sure Every Animal Is Spayed and Neutered

The single most important thing that we can do to save animals from all the suffering and death that their overpopulation causes is to spay and neuter them. Just one unaltered female cat and her offspring can produce an estimated 420,000 cats in only seven years. In six years, a female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies. So every time we spay or neuter just one animal, we prevent the births of thousands of animals. On the other hand, if we pass by even one unsterilized animal without seeing to it that she or he is spayed or neutered, we are turning our backs on thousands of unwanted animals and more than likely condemning them to hideous fates.

If you haven't yet sterilized the animals with whom you share your home, do so today. If you think that you can offer your home to an animal and provide for his or her needs for 10 to 15 years, please go to your shelter now because there are many there who are waiting for you. Adopt two compatible animals so that they can keep each other company.

Make a pledge right now to take personal responsibility for neutering or spaying every unsterilized animal you encounter. Is there an unaltered cat hanging around the back porch? Does your neighbor have a female dog who keeps going into heat or a male dog who keeps jumping the fence to chase after females in heat? Is your friend or family member giving away a litter of kittens? Help make sure that all unwanted animals are taken to open-admission shelters and then help get animals who are staying in homes spayed or neutered. Don't let the surgery be put off—be persistent! If money is preventing it, offer to pay for the procedure (you'll be saving animals' lives). If transportation to the vet is the obstacle—become a dog or cat taxi driver for a day! If the guardians still aren't convinced that spaying and neutering are vital to saving animals' lives, order our free literature on the subject to help them understand.

If possible, spay your whole street! Offer to have your neighbors' dogs and cats sterilized at a clinic or a local low-cost spay/neuter program (call 1-800-248-SPAY for details).

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