Promoting Animal Welfare

Cats are expressive animals and rely on body language as well as facial expressions to communicate. It is important to be able to understand and recognize your cat’s behavior as well as their way of communication. Doing so will allow you to interact with your cat with better enjoyment as well as safety for both you and the cat. Please take a few moments to educate and familiarize yourself with the animal’s body language.

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Dogs are expressive animals and rely on body language as well as facial expressions to communicate. It is important to be able to understand and recognize your dog’s behavior as well as their way of communication. Doing so will allow you to interact with your dog with better enjoyment as well as safety for both you and the dog. Please take a few moments to educate and familiarize yourself with the animal’s body language.

Spaying in females and neutering in males are procedures pets undergo to remove their sex organs. By doing so, pet owners eliminate the issue of dealing with unwanted litters. In addition, not only does spaying and neutering pets drastically improve pet behavior and pet health, it also helps fight against pet overpopulation and shelter overcrowding, a growing problem for pets in the U.S.

Here are more detailed reasons on why you should spay and neuter your pets:

Spayed females will live longer and healthier lives.
Spaying helps reduce chances of uterine infections and breast cancer, which is proven fatal in about 50 percent of dogs and 90 percent of cats.

Spayed females do not go into heat.
Unspayed females often go into heat cycles during breeding season. During these heat cycles, females often urinate everywhere and howl in attempts to attract a mate. Spaying your female pets will eliminate such urges and will save you the trouble of cleaning up after their mess!

Neutering will provide males with many health benefits.
Neutering your male pet will eliminate unwanted litters and testicular cancers if done before six months old.

Your neutered male won’t have an urge to roam.
Since your male pet is neutered, he will be less inclined to run away from home to find a mate. When your male pet roams, he is more susceptible to car injuries, dog fights, frightening and hurting others, or even being captured by animal control.

Neutering males drastically improve their behavior.
Besides reducing their urge to roam, neutered males will tend to focus more on the family. In addition, many aggression problems can be avoided if males are neutered at an early age.

Spaying and neutering is highly cost-effective.
The cost of a spay and neuter surgery will cost less than caring for a litter. Also, neutering your pet can prevent costly pet medical bills. If your unneutered male decides to escape home and get into fights with neighborhood strays, you’re going to be the one paying his medical bills.

Spaying and neutering is great for the community.
Neutering prevents pet roaming and reduces the chances of pets becoming roadkill and chances of causing car accidents. Spay and neuter can also make a huge difference in reducing pet overpopulation in your community.

Spaying and neutering ultimately prevents overpopulation and shelter overcrowding.
By fixing your pets, you can help contribute towards putting an end to the devestating effects of pet overpopulation. When irresponsible pet owners fail to spay or neuter their pets, a high influx of animals begin to populate shelters, overwhelming and overcrowding shelters. Thus, shelters are forced to euthanize and sometimes gas sheltered pets in order to reduce shelter overcrowding.

According to The Human Society, an estimate of eight million dogs and cats enter animal shelters each year in the United States, whom approximately three to four million are euthanized. Year after year, a horrifying amount of animals fall victim to the issue of pet overpopulation and face euthanasia. These innocent animals suffer daily due to irresponsible pet owners who fail to spay or neuter their pets. Don’t be that irresponsible pet owner. Spay and neuter your pets.

Help put an end to all this suffering.

Spread the word. Educate yourself.

1. Buy a pair of nail trimmers for your pet(s).
2. Locate the blood vessel of the nail. This should be fairly easy if your dog’s nails are white. If your dog’s nails are black, you’ll have to use your best judgement.
3. After, start by clipping off the tip of the nail.
4. If there is blood, don’t worry. Just take a clean cloth and apply pressure until the bleeding stops (usually takes a couple minutes).
5. If there isn’t, perfect! You’ve just successfully trimmed your pet’s nails.

Earthlings is a documentary about humanities’ use of animals as pets, food, clothing, entertainment and scientific research. This film features the unseen day to day activities behind the world’s largest animal dependent industries including puppy mills, meat factories, research facilities, farms and animal shelters. It exposes the uncensored inhumane treatment of animals through a series of hidden camera footage.

This film is available for free viewing online and is about 1 hour and 30 minutes long.

*Do not watch if you’re squeamish

**Or maybe you should watch it anyway because it is very educational and you will definitely get something out of it. No point in hiding from reality however hard it may be…animal welfare is not something we should simply ignore, especially if we can do something about it.

http://www.earthlings.com/

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