With thousands of procedures successfully completed, you and your pet can be assured that you are in great hands. Spaying your cat or dog will provide them with a longer life by preventing uterine infections and breast tumors.
Neutering your pet can help prevent testicular cancer and prostate issues. This practice also helps males behave better as they are less likely to mark their territory and mount people or objects.
Moreover, millions of healthy dogs and cats are being euthanized each year in the United States because there aren't enough homes for them or unexpected litters are born and people are unable to care for all. To help control this crisis, it is important to spay or neuter your pet. Not only will these procedures help the animal homelessness crisis, but they offer other medical and behavioral benefits for your pet as well.
Thus, the small cost of these procedures is far less than the cost of having a litter. If you need a spay and neuter clinic in Houston, TX and surrounding areas, contact us today. We'd be happy to answer any of your questions. This blood work is done the morning of surgery to determine if your dog is healthy enough to undergo the procedure. Other procedures that can take place while your pet is being spayed or neutered:.
The colony population size remains stable. When all cats are spayed, neutered, and returned to a colony, the population size will gradually decrease as offspring are no longer produced. Because of the gradual decrease, the vacuum effect will not occur. For a long time, "catch and kill" was a widely accepted method of managing community cat colonies.
The cats were trapped and removed from their established colony to be euthanized. While this method causes an instant decrease in the overall colony numbers, it is not effective over time. Colonies subject to "catch and kill" typically end up increasing in number back to their original size as a result of what is known as the vacuum effect.
What is the vacuum effect? Community cat colonies, like other populations of animals in the wild, have a certain population size at which they are most stable. When the population size of a colony is drastically reduced in a short amount of time, the colony reacts by trying to return to the stable size. The remaining members of the colony increase mating activities in an effort to create more offspring and stabilize the colony population size. A reduction in size also opens the door for newcomers to the colony - other cats in the area may move in.
Because of the vacuum effect, "catch and kill" has no lasting impact on the size of a community cat colony. Once the community cats within a colony are spayed and neutered, not only will the population size gradually decrease, but the cats will also be healthier and coexist more peacefully within a neighborhood.
Female cats, prevented from having any more litters, will be healthier. Male cats will gradually lose the urge to roam and fight, and will be less prone to injury. Behaviors associated with unaltered cats, such as yowling and marking territory with urine, will disappear. What is the alternative to TNR? BARC operates a very robust adoption program that is focused on saving lives by placing cats and kittens into forever homes. However, the open admission shelter takes in thousands more felines into the shelter annually than it can adopt out.
If more animals are responsibly released back into their original environments through the TNR program, less animals are euthanized. TNR is a widely accepted and supported effort to save lives, not only in Houston but around the country.
Does putting community cats back into the community increase the risk for birds and wildlife to be harmed? It has been argued that cats should be collected from the community, impounded and euthanized in shelters to protect wildlife and public health.
However, euthanizing or removing all community cats from an area may lead to an increased population of other non-native species with an even more detrimental effect. There are many more cats in the community currently than BARC can take in over a short period of time. The TNR program will decrease the number of cats that could potentially harm birds and wildlife over time refer to more information about the benefits of TNR above. How can I keep unwanted community cats off of my property? Garbage bags are very attractive to animals, so trash should be kept in containers with a secure lid, and put out in the morning of pick up to reduce the temptation for the animals.
Limit availability of water: Limit access to water features, pools and ponds with fencing. Remove or repair sources of standing water. Remove or secure potential shelter areas: Secure access under houses, sheds, decks, porches and buildings with wire fencing.
The bottom edge of the wire should be buried at least 6 inches deep, extended outward for 12 inches, so it forms an L shape, and then covered with soil, or heavy stones. Trees should be trimmed so that the branches that overhang roofs are at least 5 feet from the house. Bushes and shrubs need to be thinned and trimmed so that there is 18 inches of open space above the ground to limit the cover for animals to hide under.
Other useful tactics to deter unwanted cats : Place chicken wire or plastic carpet runner, spikes up, under flower bed mulch to make scratching uncomfortable. Sprinkle coffee grounds or citrus peels or use citrus spray on gardens and shrubs. One very effective tool is a motion detection device combined with common water, available from various outlets. The cat breaks the beam of the device, and is immediately sprayed with a stream of water.
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