[kathsua]

I used to go along with the idea of "fixing" pets, which PETA favors, until I read this. I never thought of it from the pet's perspective before. The people who want to force this practice also are trying to get legislation passed in California.

If they can tell people to not let their pets have babies, could they in the future tell women whose babies don't fit their standards they must have abortions?

[TweetEBird007]

CHINA

[Khepera]

There should NOT be a law for or against having an animal “fixed”. Thats called freedom.

[AnAmericanMother]

A bit hyperbolic.

Unfortunately, cats breed almost like bunnies, and dogs are not far behind. Indiscriminate breeding in the face of lack of natural predators means hundreds of unwanted animals to roam the streets sick, hungry, and lame until they are hit by a car or starve or die from distemper or FIP or FLV.

Folks who are not serious hobby breeders should be encouraged to neuter and spay. Benefits include no roaming, spraying, fighting, etc. Females who are spayed have lower rates of cancer and do not die of pyometritis.

And since animals live in the "now", unlike humans, they do not have regrets for what they do not miss. While we all enjoy anthropomorphizing our pets, they DON'T think like humans . . . as most good pet owners have figured out already.

[oyez]

This could be beginning of the end of pedigreed animals or even the end of all domestic animals. The PETA has a hidden agenda that would bring about a situation were human hands would never touch an animal.

[oyez]

This article reminds me a a story one of my teachers told. Back in the depression of the 1930’s he was a member of a state program that was involved in helping small farmers make their products more marketable. Basically they were telling then to neuter the male meat animals they indented to raise for market and how to do egg production with out the male bird. Many farmers declared that would be unfair the the animals.

[honeybadger]

Basing an argument on "the pet's perspective" plays right into PETA's hands. This shouldn't be a question of what an animal feels like or doesn't feel like. For me it's a basic issue of the state not having any right to interfere with my property. I have zero sympathy for any proposed legislation because I believe in property rights. Period.

That said, so many unwanted, uncared for, and abandoned stray animals suffer and are needlessly put to death every day. Isn't spaying and neutering more humane than killing them in shelters? I did a little research, and was appalled to find this: 1. Every day 70,000 puppies and kittens are born in this country while only 10,000 people are born. 2. It's simple math - there just aren’t enough homes for all of these animals. 3. Every year 10-12 million animals are euthanized in shelters for lack of available homes. 4. On average, 64% of all animals taken into shelters nationwide have to be euthanized for this reason. 5. At least 50% of the overpopulation problem is non-neutered males. Females can’t do it alone. 6. Purebreds account for 30% of all the animals in shelters. "Papers" don’t mean an animal should be bred.

Do what you want, but I for one think there's enough senseless suffering in this world as it is.