Spaying and neutering helps solve pet overpopulation. Millions of healthy, adoptable cats and dogs are destroyed each year because there aren’t enough homes:

In seven years, one female cat and her offspring can theoretically produce 420,000 cats.

In six years, one female dog and her offspring can theoretically produce 67,000 dogs.

An estimated 5 million cats and dogs are killed in shelters each year.

That’s one about every six and one half seconds.

It costs U.S. taxpayers an estimated $2 billion each year to round up, house, kill, and dispose of homeless animals.

A spayed or neutered animal will live a longer, healthier life with decreased risk of developing ovarian, uterine or breast cancer (females) and prostate cancer or testicular tumors (males).

A spayed or neutered animal is better behaved and less aggressive.  Spaying and neutering will reduce the desire to roam, fight, and “mark” territory.

Neutering will make males more reliable and responsible and often easier to train.