Neutering your pet means surgically removing the ovaries and womb of a female pet (also known as spaying) or surgically removing both testicles of a male pet (commonly known as castration).
Neutering your pet has a number of positive health benefits for your pet. In addition to health benefits for your pet there are also other advantages to neutering your pet that impact on the whole household.
Neutering a female pet can help prevent mammary cancer and ovarian cancer. Unneutered females can also get an infection in their womb which can be life threatening, by removing the womb they are no longer at risk of this happening.
Let’s not forget that female dogs in heat will pass a bloody discharge for several days. This can be quite messy around the house and is far from ideal, particularly if there are children in the house.
Female cats can come into heat quite frequently and some of them can be very vocal and noisy when they do so. This can be quite problematic in any household but particularly if you have young children in the house trying to sleep.
If your female pet is neutered she will no longer come into heat. This means there will be no bloody discharge and no noise!
Neutering male pets can help prevent prostate disease and testicular cancer.
Unneutered male cats tend to get into more fights with other unneutered male cats. This is one of the most common ways for FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) to spread in the cat population. FIV is a serious and incurable disease that effects the immune system and can significantly reduce their life-span.
Male cats that are not neutered tend to spray indoors (this is when they mark their territory). This results in a strong and very unpleasant smell. By neutering your male cat this unwanted behaviour can be stopped.
