OK, so how is neutering a male dog for anyone’s convenience? If my animals are male, then it is no inconvenience to me at all. I don’t have to deal with litters and litters of puppies and kittens. I don’t have to deal with trying to find good homes for them all. I don’t have to worry that some of them may wind up abused, neglected or tortured. However, although I may not know about it, I bear half the responsibility for all of those things, and it would be wrong for me not to step up and deal with my side of it.
As for neutering the males so they aren’t as aggressive, that too is not a bad thing. Over the years I’ve had two male cats that I didn’t have neutered. Neither of them lived past 5 years of age. They got in god-awful fights, they got ripped up, they got infections and they died from those infections.
Further, how can anyone say that it is preferable to let a female cat live its life “naturally” by having 2 or 3 litters every year, for the next 10 years, until she dies from the damage, trauma and infection in her uterus? I love kittens. I’d love to have 2 or 3 litters of kittens a year, for six weeks at a time. That’s no inconvenience for me.
We have the ability to make these animal’s lives more humane than they would be naturally. We have the ability to prevent the birth of dozens and dozens of unwanted kittens and puppies. We should do that.
That is *NOT comparable to cutting a poor dog’s vocal chords.*