Having Your Pet Spayed or Neutered, is it Cruelty or Kindness?

The perception of animal cruelty as it relates to spaying and neutering of your pet is really a personal view. The Norwegians do not believe in spaying or neutering of either cats or dogs. In fact, it is very difficult to find a vet in Norway who will do the job. Their perception on the matter is; if you monitor your animal and do not let stray thereby enabling it to mate, then you are on your way to having a happy and healthy pet.

Spaying and neutering your pet is considered cruelty in Norway, and this is the culture, it is inhumane they believe. The sight of a dog or cat in pain from surgery is enough to make you not want to have the procedure done. In other countries, like the United States, for example, they believe in spaying and neutering animals to help with population control. Many people will have this procedure done on their pets because they think this is the only way to manage the population. Some pet owners will tell you that it is a way of controlling the animal because it will alter the natural personality of the animal, and make them more docile.

Another set will tell you that they do not mind the many litter of kittens or the puppies running around, because they love animals. The problem is; not enough food to go around. Which is crueler? Neutering and spaying; or having the little darlings starve? Personally, I think we need to manage the population. It is within the best interest of the animal and the owner. The breeding ratio is too much. Can you imagine a cat having 2 litters per year and you can't find homes for them all? What about the dogs having a large litter of 8 or 10 puppies and you can't find homes for them either? What do you do?

The answer is, take them to the shelter if they can't find homes for them either, and guess what, they will be destroyed. This is the harsh reality of the lives of these helpless animals we encourage to populate the place, and then we just discard them in the shelters. It is more humane to have them spayed or neutered than to allow them to have litters that may well be cruelly killed. To be more convinced, just visit a shelter on the day of scheduled executions and you will think differently about this procedure.

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Jhon K Ford has published 85 articles. Article submitted on July 28, 2013. Word count: 408

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