For many years, Bolton has had a major problem with stray cats and dogs. Some are left behind when their owners move to a new area and have continuing litters of feral (semi-wild) cats / dogs.
Some owners are misinformed; believing it’s beneficial to allow their female cat or dog to have a litter of kittens/puppies.
Even if you’re lucky enough to find homes for your “babies”, how sure are you that they’ll prove to be “good homes”? Please, don’t add to the problem!
NEUTERING WILL:
- Prevent unwanted litters.
- Reduce territorial urine marking (spraying)
- Remove the strong “tomcat” smell, which can make keeping a male in the house so unpleasant.
- Reduce dominance related problems where two dogs live together.
- Reduce problem sexual behaviour in dogs (e.g. mounting table-legs, cushions etc.)
- Reduce roaming in search of mates (meaning less risk of fights, road accidents, or loss)
- Prevent life-threatening pyometra (infection of the uterus)
- Stop females having phantom pregnancies or, more seriously, repeated pregnancies which will take their toll on her vitality.
- Reduce the risk mammary (breast) cancer in females.
- Prevent testicular cancer, and reduce the risk of other tumours, in males.
- Stop female cats coming into heat every few weeks, and bitches twice a year – with the extreme hormone related behaviour that this entails.
- Generally make a cat more friendly and affectionate.
NEUTERING WILL NOT:
- Turn your pet into a characterless “wimp”.
- Make your pet fat.
Bolton Branch may provide financial help to those in receipt of Income Support, Job Seekers Allowance or Housing Benefit – to assist with the cost of having their pets neutered.
With the co-operation of many vets in Bolton, we operate a “Low Cost Neutering Scheme” – pet owners may pay as little as £10 for a male cat or female cat to be neutered.
Under a similar scheme dogs may be neutered for as little as £30 to £40 (though with most vets the charge for neutering a dog varies considerably with the size of the animal).
For more information or advice please contact Bolton RSPCA on Tel: 01204-521160
