“Spay and neuter provides health benefits.“
Patient records (90,090) from the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at the University of California, Davis from 1995 to 2010 were analyzed in order to determine the risk of immune-mediated disease relative to neuter status in dogs. Neutered dogs had a significantly greater risk of ATOP, AIHA, ADD, HYPO, ITP, and IBD than intact dogs with neutered females being at greater risk than neutered males for all but AIHA and ADD. Neutered females, but not males, had a significantly greater risk of LUP than intact females. Pyometra was a greater risk for intact females.
“Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.”
Bob Barker
It’s an odd sentiment, no?
Many years ago, I visited my parents soon after they got their last dachshund.
Soon after I arrived, I was hoovering in the living room when someone came to the front door. After my father answered it, he introduced me and the dog to the visitor.
The visitor asked “Are you going to have him fixed?” I blurted out: “Who–me or the dog?”
The look on everyone else’s face was priceless…..
Miss Fluffykins will die of something one day. Spaying is the only practical way to ensure that Miss Fluffykins doesn’t rut with every stray for miles and pop out a litter of puppies every time she goes into heat. In urban Canada, it is no longer considered in good taste to throw unwanted puppies in a sack, run the sack over several times with a pickup truck and throw it in the nearest convenient body of deep water.
The problem is not that we spay dogs. It’s that globalists simply refuse to permit the spaying of their Negroid “pets” to prevent their overpopulation.
Sterilizing our pets may very well increase their chance of dying of some disease or other, but I’d still like to see actual numbers rather than some general statement. On the other hand sterilizing our pets reduces to zero the chances of their offspring being drowned in a sack or otherwise die because no one wants another puppy or kitten. When weighed in the balance I think the latter far outweighs the former.
My GSP still has both his nuts and his tail, and that’s the way I like it, and I’m sure he does too.
What are “ATOP, AIHA, ADD, HYPO, ITP, and IBD”?