Montgomery County SPCA, Inc.

Reduce the Number of Animals Euthanized in Shelters

• Nationwide, an estimated 8 million to 12 million companion animals enter animal shelters every year, and approximately 5 million to 9 million are killed.
• Only 10 percent of the animals received by shelters have been spayed or neutered.
• Seventy percent of cats in shelters (7 out of 10) are killed because there is no one to adopt them.
• The pet overpopulation epidemic is so staggering that for every animal born in the United States to have a home, each and every human would have to own 6 dogs and 9 cats — i.e., a family of four would have to own 24 dogs and 36 cats.
  

Improve Your Pet’s Health and Happiness

• Spaying a female prevents pyometra (a painful and life-threatening uterine infection) and greatly reduces the chance of mammary cancer.
• Neutering a male cat prevents testicular cancer and reduces the risk of prostrate cancer and urinary tract blockages, which can be deadly in males.
• Spayed/neutered animals tend to be calmer and more affectionate.
• Spayed/neutered animals are less likely to roam, to dart out the door, risking being hit by cars.
  

Convinced? Then Don’t Delay!

• Cats can have 3 or more litters per year. It is not true that females can’t get pregnant while they are nursing. Females can go into heat as soon as 2 weeks after giving birth!
• Related cats (e.g., brother and sister) will mate.