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FACT: Each day 70,000 puppies and kittens are born.
FACT: Each year in Virginia alone hundreds of thousands of dogs and cats are euthanized due to overpopulation.
FACT: As long as these birth rates exist, there will never be enough homes for all the animals.
What can you do?
Resources for spay and neuter Information
If you're not convinced yet, here's some more info
An unspayed female cat, her mate, and all of her offspring producing 2 litters per year with only 2-3 kittens per litter surviving can produce an astounding amount of kittens in a short period of time!
| 1 year: 12 kittens | 6 years: 66,088 kittens |
| 2 years: 67 kittens | 7 years: 370,092 kittens |
| 3 years: 376 kittens | 8 years: 2,072,514 kittens |
| 4 years: 2,107 kittens | 9 years: 11,606,077 kittens! |
| 5 years: 11, 801 kittens | |
| (figures compliments of spayusa.org) | |
| Benefits of spaying females (dogs and cats) |
Benefits of neutering males (dogs and cats) |
| • It stops heat cycles | • Reduces or eliminates spraying/marking |
| • They will have less desire to roam | • Less desire to roam |
| • Risk of mammary gland tumors, ovarian and/or uterine cancer is reduced or eliminated |
• Risk of testicular cancer is elimated |
| • Eliminates the possibility of pregnancy | • Eliminates ability and urge to mate |
| • Decreased aggressive behavior |