Spaying and neutering helps solve pet overpopulation.  Millions of healthy, adoptable cats and dogs are destroyed each year because there aren't enough homes:

• •  In seven years, one female cat and her offspring can theoretically produce 420,000 cats.
  • In six years, one female dog and her offspring can theoretically produce 67,000 dogs.
  • An estimated 5 million cats and dogs are killed in shelters each year.
  • That's one about every six and one half seconds.
  • It costs U.S. taxpayers an estimated $2 billion each year to round up, house, kill, and dispose of homeless animals.
• A spayed or neutered animal will live a longer, healthier life with decreased risk of developing ovarian, uterine or breast cancer (females) and prostate cancer or testicular tumors (males).
• A spayed or neutered animal is better behaved and less aggressive.  Spaying and neutering will reduce the desire to roam, fight, and "mark" territory.
• Neutering will make males more reliable and responsible and often easier to train.