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Medical Benefits of Spaying Your Companion Animal

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The number of dogs one unaltered female and her offspring can produce in 7 years is 67,000.  Every spay and neuter counts!
 Is your dog a floozy? Spay/neuter now!
Dogs have a greatly improved chance of long life, good health and contentment if they are spayed.  Spaying and neutering is the most reliable cure for numerous health and behavior problems and acts as a powerful preventive.  In addition to conferring numerous health benefits, spaying and neutering prevents, reduces or eliminates behaviors problematic in the home.

Spaying removes the ovaries and uterus, and so eliminates the possibility of ovarian and uterine infection or cancer.  Bacterial infection of the uterus (pyometra) commonly afflicts older unaltered dogs.  As pyometra advances, bacterial poisons enter the bloodstream, causing general illness and often kidney failure.  If the uterus ruptures, the dog or cat will almost certainly die.  Pyometra requires emergency spaying, which may fail to save an animal already severely weakened by the disease.  The best preventive is to spay dogs while they are young and healthy.

Spaying can also prevent mammary gland tumors, the most common tumor in unaltered female dogs.  Nearly 50 percent of mammary tumors are malignant.  Once a mammary tumor spreads to the lungs of bones, the cancer will be fatal.  An unaltered dog is approximately 200 times more likely to develop mammary tumors than a dog spayed before her first heat (by 6-8 months). 

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Teresa L. Morton, Ahimsa Rescue Founder http://www.ahimsarescuefoundation.org

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The above information is simply informational. It's intent is not to replace the advice of a veterinarian nor to assist you in making a diagnosis of your pet. Please consult with your own veterinarian for confirmation of any diagnosis. Your pets life may depend on it.