At present, the animal sterilization is widely used in the western countries as a method of birth control. Though, this question has only started to worry pet owners in our country. Sterilization involves removing of female reproductive organs and male testicles. Is it such a risky thing?
What do pet owners say against it?
Myth # 1: "The animal sterilization is an animal and its possible posterity abuse".
What abuse do you actually mean? No female neither male animal dreams about the happiness of maternity or paternity. A maternal instinct of a female is enough only to suckle puppies. If it sees them in a year, it won't even recognize them, so will be treating like the rest of its congeners. What is more, the father of a family doesn't even know about its progeny. What may be considered as a much crueler thing is dumping an "unplanned" newborn posterity.
Myth # 2: "It's unnatural".
The dog which lives in your apartment and goes for a walk two or three times a day isn't natural either, is it? You school your dog pressing its inherent instincts, training it to behave the way a human society would accept it, docking its ears or tail to meet the breed standards made up by a human being – does it sound like natural?
Myth # 3: "Animal sterilization is unhealthy. A bitch or a dog must be mated at least once".
It will be much healthier for your pet to be sterilized (to be castrated) as early as possible. The risk of acquiring a breast cancer in adult age by the female which has been sterilized early enough (before the first heat) drops to almost 100%. Castrated males won't to be frightened of diseases, such as prostatitis and prostate gland adenoma, while the rate of disease of unsterilized animals reaches 90%. Sterilizing prolongs animal's life. Sterilized animals live up to 1-5 years longer than unsterilized.
Myth # 4: "The character of your pet will change. It will lose its performance qualities".
Sterilizing doesn't influence on animal's inherit performance qualities, though, decreases its aggressiveness up to 60%. Animal sterilizing deprives them of their hormone-dependent instincts. They become gentler, stop running away from their owner to "respond to the call of nature", stop fighting. At about 80% of dogs which have been had the accidents and street fight participants are also unsterilized animals.
Myth # 5: "A sterilized animal will suffer from obesity".
Sterilized animals need 30% of calories less than unsterilized. Researches haven't found any difference in food digestion between sterilized and unsterilized units. An obesity level depends only on the diet of the animal and its physical activity.
Myth # 6: "Animal sterilizing is a too expensive surgery".
It all depends. Onetime costs for the surgery are much less than an expensive treatment of severe diseases that might happen with an unsterilized animal in the future. A sterilized pet owner won't be spending money on providing a pregnant animal nor on its posterity.
Myth # 7: "Sterilizing causes enuresis (bedwetting)".
That's right. Such complications are met after sterilizing. According to the scientific facts, the earlier a female is sterilized, its chances to suffer from the bedwetting are less. And, vice versa, the later the sterilizing is, the higher possibility to have complications. This disease is treated with synthetic hormones.
According to vets, animal sterilization is more of benefit to them than harmful and has got much more advantages than disadvantages. So, if you really love your pet, sterilize (castrate) it and, thus, give it a few years more of healthy life.
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