Advantages
Besides being a birth control method, neutering[males]/spaying[females] has the following health benefits:
- Prevention of mammary tumors: Female cats and dogs are about seven times more likely to develop mammary tumors if they are not spayed before their first heat cycle.
- Female dogs that have been spayed before their first heat have a lifetime chance of developing mammary tumors of about 99.5% less than that of intact females.
- Pyometra is prevented, either due to the removal of the organ (when ovariohysterectomy is performed) and/or
