Did your family or friends adopt a companion animal (pet) recently?
If your companion animal has not been desexed yet, now is the time to get it done!
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By six months of age, cats can have kittens and dogs can have puppies. Many people wait too long to get their companion animal desexed, thinking their companion animal is still just a baby themselves. But before they know it, they have a litter of kittens or a litter of puppies that they’ll need to find homes for. Finding a loving, responsible home for each animal isn’t always that easy!
What’s more, if those animals don’t get spayed or neutered, they will have babies too - meaning more loving, responsible, forever homes will need to be found.
Every year, thousands of abandoned, neglected and unwanted dogs, cats and rabbits enter RSPCA Shelters and other animal rescue shelters around Australia. Some of these animals are lucky enough to be adopted into loving, responsible, forever homes, but sadly there are far more animals in need of a caring family than there are kind, responsible people willing to provide them with a good, permanent home.
Companion animal overpopulation is a serious problem. Animal shelters become overcrowded and are unable to care for the thousands of homeless companion animals in Australia every year. Sadly, not enough people adopt their companion animals from shelters to help ease the crowding. In many cases, homeless animals live a sad, lonely, hard life out on the streets, trying to survive on their own.
There are three main reasons:
RSPCA desexes every animal adopted from our RSPCA Centres, even those as young as eight-weeks-old.
We also recommend that people have their companion animals desexed as soon as possible. Remember, it is an easy procedure for your veterinarian to perform.
For more questions about when to have your companion animal spayed or neutered, speak with your veterinarian.
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