why is neutering a pet considered humane?

[uscitizen]

Neutered Males will be more likely to stay home and get into less trouble.
Would work for male teenagers as well.

 

[Thorn]

For the ultimate mean practical joke, gather the urine of a dog in heat and sprinkle it liberally around your victim's yard. Works best in areas without leash laws.

That is mean, mean, mean!!! There's a state law in Texas now, since January 2009, that prohibits letting a dog run loose (except in a dog park) anywhere in the state. Of course there's the matter of enforcement, which probably takes place when convenient.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Unlike humans, dogs and cats have seasonal sexual urges. Remember that their olfactory systems are literally thousands of times more sensitive than ours; the primary means that they use to identify a willing mate comes from the pheromones emitted by a receptive female in season. Males also wander a lot more if they're not neutered, and also can be more aggressive and kind of squirrely at times. (They have all these hormones secreting and don't know what to do with them.) The females suffer badly during their "heat" season which may occur 2 or 3 times a year. It's also something that most pet owners are neither equipped or prepared to recognize or deal with.

Things you listed that happen to un-neutered male dogs that also happen to un-neutered male humans:

Seasonal sexual urges: [ ]
Wandering to get a fuck: [x]
Agressiveness: [x]
Hormones: [x]

 

[Thorn]

Things you listed that happen to un-neutered male dogs that also happen to un-neutered male humans:

Seasonal sexual urges: [ ]
Wandering to get a fuck: [x]
Agressiveness: [x]
Hormones: [x]

LOL! Well, the wandering and aggressiveness are a direct result of the hormones. Humans' sexual urges aren't seasonal, though.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

The females suffer badly during their "heat" season which may occur 2 or 3 times a year. It's also something that most pet owners are neither equipped or prepared to recognize or deal with.

meh, cats survived thousands of years in the wild with heat cycles. Seems the primary motivation here is the convenience of the owner. Which doesn't seem humane to me. Right or wrong I wish people would be more honest with themselves. I'm not convinced altruistic motives are the driving force behind these operations.

Additionally, through some wikipedia-ing:

Neutered dogs and cats of both genders have an increased risk of obesity.

Neutered dogs of both genders are at a twofold excess risk to develop (bone cancer) as compared to intact dogs,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutering#cite_note-Priester-5 as well as an increased risk of hemangiosarcoma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutering#cite_note-Ware-9 (rare, rapidly growing, highly invasive variety of cancer.) and urinary tract cancerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutering#cite_note-Sanborn-10

Neutered dogs of both genders have a 27% to 38% increased risk of adverse reactions to vaccinations.

Neutered male dogs display a fourfold increased incidence of prostate cancer over intact males.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutering#cite_note-Teske-13

So....

With balls:

• more aggressive
• can have sex

Without balls:

• more likely to be obese
• vacinnes are 30-40% more ineffective
• can't have sex
• 2 times more likely to develop bone cancer
• increased risk of urinary track cancer
• 4 times increase of prostate caner

 

[Thorn]

meh, cats survived thousands of years in the wild with heat cycles. Seems the primary motivation here is the convenience of the owner. Which doesn't seem humane to me. Right or wrong I wish people would be more honest with themselves. I'm not convinced altruistic motives are the driving force behind these operations.

Additionally, through some wikipedia-ing:

So....

With balls:

• more aggressive
• can have sex

Without balls:

• more likely to be obese
• vacinnes are 30-40% more ineffective
• can't have sex
• 2 times more likely to develop bone cancer
• increased risk of urinary track cancer
• 4 times increase of prostate caner

I'm skeptical about accepting medical information from wikipedia. Let me do some searching and get back to you on this. There's a ton of information out there that will be more credible and I do have access to a lot of it.

Apart from the medical advantages to pets that are not to be bred, remember that shelters "euthanize" thousands upon thousands of stray pets every year, and that the vast majority of those animals came from unplanned, irresponsible breeding.

 

[uscitizen]

Mail all you stray and unwanted pets to Grind.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

LOL! Well, the wandering and aggressiveness are a direct result of the hormones. Humans' sexual urges aren't seasonal, though.

Exactly. We're like dogs, except all the time.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I'm skeptical about accepting medical information from wikipedia. Let me do some searching and get back to you on this. There's a ton of information out there that will be more credible and I do have access to a lot of it.

Apart from the medical advantages to pets that are not to be bred, remember that shelters "euthanize" thousands upon thousands of stray pets every year, and that the vast majority of those animals came from unplanned, irresponsible breeding.

Thorn, you could at least check the wikipedia citations before declaring them useless.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16772464

http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.2005.227.1102

http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=b206047d19eaa2c7625f4eea7030db1a

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118899874/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

 

[uscitizen]

Exactly. We're like dogs, except all the time.

Yes pack behaviour rules humans.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I personally support euthanization, for no other reason than the sadistic pleasure it gives me to cause pain to animals.

 

[Beefy]

I personally support euthanization, for no other reason than the sadistic pleasure it gives me to cause pain to animals.

Your trollery has really gone to pot.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Your trollery has really gone to pot.

Was my trollery ever to your satisfaction?

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

wow i just realized, watermark has become enlightened.

I told you, it happens to everyone on political sites after a while. You get tired of debating issues so you start trolling 100% of the time, always being tongue in cheek and never serious. You've joined the ranks watermark!

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

wow i just realized, watermark has become enlightened.

I told you, it happens to everyone on political sites after a while. You get tired of debating issues so you start trolling 100% of the time, always being tongue in cheek and never serious. You've joined the ranks watermark!

Sorry, I'm not giving you praise. I'm like a parasite when it comes to praise.

 

[WinterBorn]

You want to know the real reason spaying and neutering is considered humane?

Because it saves all that time teaching Rover to use a condom. Their claws are hell on the latex.

 

[uscitizen]

Abstinance only training for our pets.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

We need to invent semi-permanent condoms for dogs.

 

[uscitizen]

We need to invent semi-permanent condoms for dogs.

And male teenagers.

 

[DamnYankee]

excuse me but if I was the dog I would like to keep my balls, thank you very much. how is this possibly considered humane?

please explain

Have you ever seen neglected or unwanted pets? I suggest that you volunteer at the local animal shelter for a day.