To Snip or Not to Snip

[madra_liath]

EDIT: I'm gonna go ahead and have him done. Thanks for the advice and anecdotes, everybody

Comments

[suidae]

Just neuter him. As long as he is in good health for the surgery there really is no excuse for not doing it.

Honestly though... questions like this make my blood boil. I really don't get why this is such a confusion/mystifying concept.

[logosh]

It's because of a lot of myths and anecdotes that have become popular, (such as fixing your pet makes it lazy and/or fat) so people see it as truth. While bad things can occasionally occur from fixing a pet, it really doesn't outweigh the good in most cases

[suidae]

No, I understand that there is ignorance out there. But when someone comes in saying "I know the benefits, I just don't feel like doing it" it's really upsetting. Especially after seeing the pet population explode, mammary cancer in some of my work's nonspayed patients, people abandoning their tom cat because it's "urine smells/over-aggression" and all of the other things that could have been avoided if they had fucking spayed their pets. idk, I think this kind of question (coming from a person who stated that they are "educated" on the subject) is just *really* stupid.

GUAH... sorry XD like I said, blood boiling.

[logosh]

My favorite has to be "It'll make my dog less of a man"

Lolwut?

[suidae]

lol they have testicle implants for that.

[logosh]

Since one of my old dogs still humped everything that moved and everything that didn't, I don't think he could have given less of a damn

[lareinadeluz]

Neuticals! OMG don't get me started on those.

[lotus82]

My father claims spaying/neutering a domestic cat "takes away their only joy in life". *rolls eyes* Yep. Ginger and Sophie are spayed and my husband and I do TNR for stray cats when we're able to do the T part of it.