Why Spay Or Neuter?
Spay or neuter surgery is one of the best things you can do for your best friend! This procedure helps your pet live a longer, happier, and healthier life; provides a significant cost-savings throughout the lifetime of your pet; and prevents unwanted and homeless litters.
Spay or neuter surgery:
Helps pets live longer, happier, and healthier lives
- Prevents reproductive diseases and cancer (e.g. testicular, breast, ovarian, uterine)
- Surgery on a female animal before her first heat cycle, or by 6 months of age, virtually eliminates her risk of developing breast cancer later in life.
- Surgery on a female animal eliminates her risk for developing a serious, life-threatening uterine infection called a pyometra.
- Reduces aggression and territorial problems
- Reduces propensity to roam/stray
- Eliminates heat cycles in female animals
Is a one-time procedure that provides a cost-savings over the lifetime of your pet
- Reproductive diseases and cancer, which are highly preventable through spay/neuter, are very expensive and difficult to treat
- Pregnancy and babies:
- There could be complications with a pregnancy and some animals may need a Cesarean section surgery to safely deliver babies
- A litter is expensive to feed, deworm, and vaccinate. A pet license in Fayette County for an unaltered dog or cat is $40 every year, versus only $8 for an altered dog or cat
- A pet license in Fayette County for an unaltered dog or cat is $40 every year. versus only $8 for an altered dog or cat
- For more information on pet licensing click here
- If you need help affording a spay/neuter procedure, Spay’sTheWay provides free and low-cost surgeries to qualifying pet owners
- Included with surgery at no additional cost are rabies vaccination, DHPP/FVRCP vaccination, and Fayette County pet license
- Call (859) 233-0044 Ext. 228 to make your appointment
Compassionately prevents litters and reduces pet overpopulation
- Did you know your baby can have babies? Puppies reach sexual maturity as early as 6 months of age; kittens reach sexual maturity as early as 5 months
- Don’t let a litter sneak up on you, seek spay/neuter services early!
- Year after year, the number of babies born can add up very quickly
- Fertile female cats, on average, have 1-2 litters each year, with an average of 4-6 kittens in each litter
- Fertile female dogs, on average, have 1 litter a year, with an average of 4-6 puppies in each litter
- Each litter prevented through spay/neuter can potentially prevent dozens, if not hundreds, of additional litters in the future