{"id":21002,"date":"2023-02-23T00:10:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T05:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=21002"},"modified":"2023-02-22T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:33:31","slug":"love-means-having-your-cat-spayed-or-neutered-for-world-spay-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/love-means-having-your-cat-spayed-or-neutered-for-world-spay-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Means Having Your Cat Spayed or Neutered for World Spay Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s okay for kitties to be friends, but only if precautions have been taken!<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s February, that time of year when love is in the air. That’s why February is nationally recognized as Spay\/Neuter Awareness Month, as a means to educate and encourage people to have their pets sterilized before the spring and summer months when there is a rampant overproduction of puppies and kittens and when most animal shelters experience an unmanageable increase in animal intake. Today is also World Spay Day and honestly, the best gift of love you can give your pet is to have them spayed or neutered. In our case, since we’re cat educators, here are some basic facts as to how and why spay\/neuter equates to love:<\/p>\n

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  1. It improves your cat’s health and quality of life<\/b>. The overall health and emotional benefits to your cat from spay\/neuter will result in them having a longer and happier life. Spaying your female prior to her first heat nearly eliminates the risk of mammary cancer, uterine infections, and uterine cancer, which is fatal to approximately 90% of cats according to the\u00a0ASPCA<\/a>. Neutering your male before he is 6 months of age prevents testicular and prostate cancer and greatly reduces his risk for perianal tumors.<\/li>\n
  2. It lowers a cat’s dangerous desire to roam.<\/strong> Even with the best intentions to keep your cat indoors, escapes can happen. <\/strong>If your female is not spayed and she comes across an unaltered male, she might accidentally become impregnated. Even worse, in looking for a mate, your cat could become lost, injured, or even fatally hit by a car.<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0Behavioral Benefits.<\/strong>\u00a0Spaying stops a female\u2019s heat cycle and the annoying vocalization and inappropriate urination that can often come with it. Until she is spayed, this cycle will repeat and continue for weeks at a time until she finds a mate. Neutering a male reduces aggressive behavior and his need to mark the house or outdoors with strong-smelling urine. Spay\/neuter will virtually eliminate these behavioral issues whether for an indoor pet cat, or outdoor colonies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    There are numerous other reasons to encourage and promote spay\/neuter. If you’d like to read further articles, please consider the following:<\/p>\n

    Zee & Zoey\u2019s Spay\/Neuter Series \u2013 The Facts of Life: The 101\u2019s of Kittens and Conception<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

    Zee & Zoey\u2019s Spay\/Neuter Series \u2013 The Overall Health, Behavioral, and Emotional Benefits for Cats and Society at Large<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

    Zee & Zoey\u2019s Spay\/Neuter Series \u2013 Debunking the Misconceptions, Excuses, and Reasons Why People Don\u2019t Spay or Neuter Their Cat<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

    Zee & Zoey\u2019s Spay\/Neuter Series \u2013 Cat Overpopulation and the Moral Ethics of Time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

    Zee & Zoey’s Spay\/Neuter Series – Making Sense of Cat Overpopulation When the Numbers Don’t Add Up<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s February, that time of year when love is in the air. That’s why February is nationally recognized as Spay\/Neuter Awareness Month, as a means to educate and encourage people to have their pets sterilized before the spring and summer months when there is a rampant overproduction of puppies and kittens and when most animal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1124,1098,992,1095],"tags":[949,1278,549],"class_list":["post-21002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-events","category-cat-behavior","category-rescue-and-advocacy","category-spay-and-neuter","tag-february-spayneuter-month","tag-spay-and-neuter","tag-world-spay-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t