Murphy is dead.
My beloved Cavalier King Charles Spaniel died March 8 of splenic cancer. She was a week shy of 13 years and 8 months.
She died of a cancer linked to early spay/neuter.
Cancer is the new epidemic in this country: 50% of dogs over 10 get cancer. Don’t believe me? Google it.
Our dogs don’t have to get cancer because of ill-conceived social conventions.
Save your dogs.
Stop early spay/neuter.
Just say no.
Here’s the thing. Cancer comes from a lot of things, including environmental toxins, poor nutrition, genetic mutation, and plain bad luck.
It also comes from interrupting the maturing organism’s hormonal development by spaying and neutering when they’re babies. Before they are sexually mature, as nature designed them.
Why did we ever think we were smarter than nature?
Because of politics.
Stop overpopulation, we’re told (get the irony of that for human populations?). Spay/neuter before the animal is sexually mature.
Has that policy worked? No, it has simply created a gigantic welfare agency called the shelter and rescue community. They have become the new puppy millers. Shut down puppy millers, they claim, including responsible breeders. Instead go to the shelter/rescue people to buy dogs whose parents weren’t spayed and neutered or properly supervised. And the oh-so-well-meaning organization will spay or neuter the offspring, and stop overpopulation.
Which has not happened.
But cancer has.
Make no mistake. You are buying a dog from a shelter or rescue organization, an animal who comes to you before you can choose whether it needs to be spayed or neutered, and when. They are buying into bad advice from their comrades and from the veterinary community.
I would never have spayed or neutered any of my animals early if I’d known the truth about cancer.
Now you know. What are you going to do about it?
I hope you’re going to save your dogs: if not the ones you currently have, then all the ones that come later.
This policy was born in ignorance. It will only stop if we take a stand. Here’s what you do:
- REFUSE. Refuse to buy any dog from any shelter/rescue/breeder/careless person that sticks to the early spay/neuter policy.
- REFUSE. Refuse to support any person or agency that insists on this policy. That includes the Humane Society, Best Friends, veterinarians, pet supplies stores, you got it. All of them.
- EDUCATE. Educate yourself and everyone you meet about this problem.
- COMMUNICATE. Get together and talk about it. Help figure out how we can change mindset and save lives.
Together we can make a difference. We can stop the brainwashing with bad statistics that is ruining lives. We can save our dogs.
Say no to the truly irresponsible organizations and people: refuse to adopt their dogs if they refuse to stop this policy.
The policy will stop soon enough. Because we’ll put them out of business.
Money works. Talk works. Love works.
Murphy is dead. Don’t let your dogs die from something you could have prevented when they were babies.
Stop early spay/neuter.
The life you save may be your beloved animal’s.
© 2012 Robyn M Fritz
