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Everyone should spay or neuter their pet dogs and cats. It benefits the pet, the pet owner, the community and even wild bird populations.
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Spay or Neuter Your Pet Everyone should spay or neuter their pet dogs and cats. It benefits the pet, the pet owner, the community and even wild bird populations. Overpopulation of unwanted animals is a huge problem. According to The Humane Society, over 11 million dogs and cats a year are euthanized in the nations animal shelters. National estimates of the feral cat population vary from 30 million to 150 million; all of these feral cats kill wildlife, especially birds. In fact, Dr. Stanley Temple, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, states that "Nationwide, rural cats probably kill over a billion small mammals and hundreds of millions of birds each year ... World-wide cats may have been involved in the extinction of more bird species than any other cause, except habitat destruction."(WSJ 10-11-02;A-1). One female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 cats over seven years, and one female dog...
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