Every year, I compile a list of New Year’s Day resolutions. Typically, the same items top my list each year. For instance, I always desire to lose weight and spend more time with my family members. Perhaps, you want to get healthier in the New Year. You may also wish for your beloved pet to enjoy better health this year. To help you accomplish this important task, schedule regular appointments for your pet with his or her veterinarian. A veterinarian can inform you of any health problems your pet may be experiencing. On this blog, I hope you will discover the importance of taking your pet to annual veterinarian appointments. Enjoy!
During the cold, dark days of winter, both you and your pets go into a semi-hibernation mode. However, with the onset of spring, warm weather and longer days beckon everyone outdoors.
While both pets and their owners are affected by the increasing amount of daylight, dogs and cats don't have the rational mind to control the flooding of hormones and the pull of instinctual drives that compels them to go out and reproduce.
Spaying and neutering your pets will eliminate this raging urge to mate at all costs and save your pets from the dangers associated with mating cycles, as well as help to control the population of homeless dogs and cats.
Can't you just keep your intact pets inside your home?
If you have intact (not spayed or neutered) pets inside your home, they will not hesitate to mate with each other despite their familial ties. Pets don't have cultural taboos that are deigned to prevent inbreeding and the enhancement of genetic flaws associated with it.
In addition, keeping them inside your home is next to impossible if you have a female pet in estrus or a male pet that smells a ready and willing female outside the home. You also need to deal with the unwanted attention of males that will congregate outside of your home, fighting, crying out, and causing mayhem, if you have a female pet in "heat."
The behavior of your indoor pets will also be less than exemplary. Male dogs will attempt to mate with anything in sight, including your appendages, while male cats will spray the walls with a horrid concoction of urine and secretions from anal sacs to mark their territory.
Female pets will cry out for hours, rub their genital area across the floor, and urinate in unusual places. All intact pets will attempt to run between your legs and out the door every time you enter or leave your home.
What are the dangers to intact pets that are outdoors when spring arrives?
If your intact pets find a way to escape your home, they are exposed to potentially fatal dangers, both physical and biological. Several males will pursue a female in heat, who will run with complete disregard across busy streets with her male suitors in tow,
If males aren't hurt or killed by vehicles, they are often injured through fighting over females. Dogs may arrive home with severe bites to extremities, as well as torn ears and tails. Male cats will also have bite injuries in addition to eye injuries and abscesses, which are swellings caused by infections under the skin caused by scratch injuries.
Biological hazards include infection with sexually transmitted diseases as well as those carried in saliva. Parasitic infestations can also be spread through close physical contact between pets and feral dogs and cats.
It's best to be proactive before spring arrives and get your pet to your local veterinary hospital or spay and neuter clinic. It may hurt to subject your pet to a preventative type of surgery, but these procedures may protect your pet from many future dangers and will definitely improve their attitude when mating season is in full swing.
For more information about spaying and neutering, contact a veterinary hospital in your area.
Share10 February 2017
