Neuter or spay your animal preferable between 6 and 7 months. In female animals, it should happen before the onset of their first heat cycle and in male animals, before sexual maturity, which is between 6 and 9 months of age.
Benefits of spaying (female animals):
- avoid messy symptoms of heat cycle
- avoid unwanted male animal attention
- reduced risk of ovarian or uterine cancer
- reduced risk of developing mammary cancer
- avoid Pyometra infection of the uterus
- avoid injury, stress and disease related to reproducing
Benefits of neutering (male animals):
- avoid urine marking
- avoid inappropriate mounting
- avoid testosterone associated aggression
- avoid testosterone associated roaming habits
- eliminates the risk of testicular cancer
- avoid enlarged or infected prostate
- reduced risk of incontinence in older animals
- reduced risk of prostrate cancer
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