Spaying and neutering are important and necessary medical procedures that enhance the quality of your pets’ life. Not only does spaying and neutering have positive effects on your pets’ health, it’s also vital to controlling the homeless pet population.
Unfortunately, every year millions of puppies and kittens are euthanized due to overpopulation and lack of resources to care for them adequately. In the United States alone, there are an estimated 6-8 million homeless animals entering animal shelters each year, and only about half of these animals are ever adopted. That means that over 2.7 million healthy cats and dogs are euthanized every single year. Spaying and neutering is the only 100% effective birth control method for cats and dogs.
What To Expect
We understand that some may be apprehensive about having their pet undergo a surgical procedure, but it is one of the most common ones that we perform. Your pet will be comfortably sedated during the entire surgery, which protects both them and our staff.
For female pets, we perform either an ovariohysterectomy or ovariectomy, in which we make a small incision in the abdomen to remove either the uterus and the ovaries or just both ovaries. We will send your pet home on the same day, with a cone or a medical shirt to prevent her from licking the incision. Activity should be kept to a minimum for 14 days while she heals, and we may prescribe pain medication to keep her comfortable during this time.
Male pets undergo castration, wherein both testes are removed through a pre-scrotal incision (dogs) or a scrotal incision (cats). All male pets can go home the same day after surgery. Activity should be limited for 14 days while your pet heals, and we will send him home with a a cone or a medical shirt to prevent irritating the surgical site.