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 Is spaying / neutering your pet cruel?, Please read the first post before voting

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xecton
post Jan 14 2008, 09:42 AM

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QUOTE(Pennywise @ Jan 14 2008, 08:34 AM)
I know its good for them but somehow, I just cannot bring myself to do it when I only had Casper. In the end, I got him a partner, Moonie and decided to take care of them for life.

I always think - your mom thinks it's good for you, send you to the chop board - how would you feel? Unfair la. I'm not letting my dog make the decision, I'm making the better decision for him as a good owner. If we talk about the amount of stray dogs on the road, then that's a different case.

In the end, I feel spaying and neutering is for SPCA, not for home owners. That's just my humble thought. Thanks for reading.
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If the home owners do it, then SPCA wouldn't have to.

You cannot care for all of your pet's offsprings. Eventually you will need to give them away, and hopefully to good owners.
But you'll never know. Some of them might ended up as a stray. If they managed to survived, then they'll breed more. Who is to give a good home to them?
xecton
post Jan 20 2008, 02:31 PM

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QUOTE(wish-bone @ Jan 20 2008, 12:16 PM)
just imagine our parent spay us so we wont go out straying or flirting and risk of getting aids.
cruel ? or not ??
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You are equating a human and a dog, two distinct beings with very very different mental capacities.

Perhaps we should think of it this way, that it is a bit on the cruel side to neuter/spay your pets but it is a necessery evil that we do so that our society can function smoothly (stray animals are always a hazard to us, road accidents, diseases, etc).

By neutaring/spaying them, we also remove from them a few potential health hazards and also the mating urge that most of us will not let them engaged to.

It is childish to not acknowledge all these issues that affect both us and our pets while standing on a misguided moral high ground.

Because ultimately, we know that all these breeds of pets that we have are actually animal monstrosities that we human selectively breed out.
They are not natural, and because of our tempering, they are now susceptible to various health problems that is specific to their breeds.

If neutering/spaying is cruel and we should not do it, then we should not have all these different breeds of a same animals in the first place. Let them breed amongst themselves without our interference.
Heck, we should not keep pets at home at all. We should let them run wild and true to their nature.

 

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