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Every hour in the United States, more than 2,000 dogs and 3,500 cats are born, compared to 415 humans. The yearly statistics include more than 17 million dogs and 30 million cats. Add these animals to an existing pet population of 54 million dogs and 56 million cats and the total exceeds one billion!!!

Each year, around 15 million pets are turned into animal shelters across the country. Only 25 to 30 percent of these animals are reclaimed by their owners or adopted into new homes. The rest, some 11 million dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens, must be put to death because no one wants them.

This terrible waste can be easily reduced by reducing the number of puppies and kittens being born. And the best way to do that is to neuter your pets. Neutering is a simple surgical procedure, which prevents pets from reproducing by removing their reproductive organs.

As a pet owner, you can add to the overpopulation problem or help end it. Don't fool yourself into thinking that if you find a home for each of your pet's offspring you avoid adding to the number of homeless pets. Actually, you've only eliminated potential homes for other waiting puppies and kittens. Only so many responsible, caring homes exist, and finding a home for one of your pet's offspring inevitably dooms some other cat or dog.

Besides giving other pets a chance at a loving home, neutering your pets gives them and you a lot of benefits you may not be aware of:

• Why Male Dogs should be Neutered

• Why Female Dogs should be Spayed

• Why Male Cats should be Neutered

• Why Female Cats should be Neutered

Don't add to the fatal population explosion!
No one likes to think about the healthy, beautiful affectionate cats, dogs, puppies, and kittens losing their lives because no one wants them. Shelters, which offer food, warmth, and medical attention, care very much about these animals, but the volume of pets entering shelters greatly outnumbers the families looking to adopt. Euthanasia has become their only solution and it is not a good one. A better solution is to limit the number of animals being born until they equal the number of people who want and can care for them. So please contact your veterinarian or animal shelter and get your pet neutered.

Worried about the cost?
There are some local organizations that offer low-cost Spay/Neuter programs. Check out Spay, Inc. and Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Sources.