By Kate Quigley | Project Leader
We are experiencing a relentless overpopulation of dogs and cats in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The only remedy for this problem is spaying and neutering. Many people have false information regarding spaying and neutering their animal. They often think it is better to let them have a litter. This is actually not true. According to the American Veterinary Association, there is no known benefit to delaying spaying until after a dog’s first heat cycle.
Actually, it’s the sooner the better to get them altered. It is far healthier for them, as they do not develop cancers related to hormones-uterine and mammary cancers in females and prostrate and testicular cancer in males. Spaying and neutering your animal greatly reduces your pet’s chance of developing cancer. It is this reduction in cancers that enables your spayed and neutered pet to live a long and healthy life! That’s why spayed and neutered pets overall live longer than unaltered pets.
There is just is nowhere for all of these puppies to go. The shelters and rescue groups are full. It is sad to know that it is 2025 and we are still euthanizing pets in shelters in the US and right here in Kansas City because there are not enough homes for them all. That’s why we cringe when we come across another litter. We have to intervene if we can. We try to get the puppies over to the shelter because we know they will for sure get their vaccinations, worming, spayed and neutered and found a home. We try and spay the momma dog for people for free and have her remain in the home with the family, but unable to breed again. That is the best scenario currently.
We have to keep trying. The alternative is not acceptable, which is just to let them breed all over the city and continue to over-run our shelters. Moms and puppies suffer greatly. Puppies are not vaccianted and break with parvo, a deadly virus. We will continue to find litters and advocate getting situations resolved for mom and babies. It’s one house at a time, one dog at a time.
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