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Q.
Won’t spaying or neutering make my pet get fat and lazy?
A. No,
animals get fat and lazy from lack of exercise or being over fed.
Q. Since I
find good pet homes for all of the litter, shouldn’t I let my pet
quality dog give birth?
A. There is
rarely a guarantee that the puppy you give/sell to your friends will also
not be allowed to breed, adding to the number of pets that will be put to
death each year or become strays. A "pet quality" animal is one
that was chosen and sold to you not for breeding purposed. Only the best
of each litter should be considered for reproduction to promote the breed
standard.
Q. Isn’t the surgery
painful and dangerous?
A.
It is
certainly less painful and dangerous than mating and giving birth. Surgery
is performed under anesthesia and is painless. Precautions are always take
by the vet.
Q. Isn’t
the surgery costly?
A. The
surgery is only performed once in your pet’s lifetime. Compare the cost
of surgery with things that cost about the same, and only last one time:
example, an evening on the town for a couple, an auto-tune up or new
tires.
Q. Shouldn’t
they have a litter before they are spayed?
A. No...
The more heat cycles a pet has gone through, the more susceptible she is
to serious diseases. There are no medical advantages in permitting your
pet to have a litter. Spaying a female reduces the chances of mammary
tumors. A dog that experiences motherhood doesn’t automatically develop
a better temperament. Often, just the opposite occurs. All dogs the same
as all people are not necessarily good candidate for having offspring!
*Males: Neutered
males are also better behaved. They are less likely to run away from
home, and less likely to urinate in the house. Most intact males (in the
case of Chesapeakes) are very dominant and will get into a fight with
another male, whether hunting or on a family outing at the lake. This
could be very dangerous for the dog as well as the children and adults
that are present.
Q. Shouldn’t
my children be able to witness the miracle of the birth of a litter?
A. NO! It
is not important that pet ownership teach about reproduction. This can be
learned from books and parents. It is important that pet ownership teach
children about responsibility, including the responsibility not to
increase the overpopulation of "pets" and pet-quality dogs.
Animal shelters have to destroy many dogs because the public has failed to
control the pet population.
Let the
breeding of dogs belong to the knowledgeable breeder. They have the background for
picking the best puppies in each litter who should be reproduced and those
who should not. Breeding is done to promote and save the best that there
is, eliminating undesirable traits with each generation and keeping the
positive ones. Breeding pet quality reinforces that the dogs in the next
generation are worse than what we have now and that’s not what it is all
about.
                            
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