Many healthy kittens and puppies are euthanized before reaching six months old. Yet some pet owners continue to allow their animals to breed.

The consequences of strays can be staggering: One unspayed cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 kittens in seven years and one unspayed dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in six years.

There simply are not enough homes to adopt them all.

The most heart-wrenching result of our failure to spay and neuter is the fate of all the resulting unwanted animals. Unwanted pets that get euthanized in a shelter are often the lucky ones; others get abandoned or otherwise killed or disposed of. Stray cats and dogs on the streets usually live miserable and short lives, ending only when they die from cold, starvation, disease, or worse.

But it's not just the animals who suffer due to our failure to spay and neuter. Capturing, impounding and eventual euthanasia costs taxpayers and private agencies millions of pounds each year. In addition to the tax burden of pet overpopulation, a host of societal problems also result.  As a potential source of rabies and other diseases, some abandoned pets become public health hazards. Stray animals scare children, bite passersby, cause accidents, and soil streets and parks. 

Look at these faces and tell them they will have a life of

starvation, cold, disease, loneliness and despair

because YOU did not spay/neuter their parents