This February will be "Love Your Pet" month here at the Animal Hospital of Walnut Cove. In celebration of "love your pet" month, we will be offering 20% off all spays and neuters for the entire month of February. Having your pet spayed or neutered is better for its overall health. Spaying and neutering can prevent mammary and uterine cancer in females, and testicular and other types of cancer in males. Spaying prevents pyometra, a deadly infection that can occur in the uterus of a female dog that isn't spayed. In males, neutering prevents protaste enlargement and prostate infections. Other than the health benefits, spaying and neutering can help decrease aggression, roaming, spraying and marking.Spaying and neutering also helps the pet overpopulation crisis. Each day, tens of thousands of puppies and kittens are born in the US. There are simply just not enough homes for all of them, and those that don't find a home can end up a stray on the streets or in shelters. Untfortunately, each year millions of dogs and cats in shelters do not find homes and are euthanized to make room for more homeless pets. One simple way to help fix this major problem is to have your pet spayed or neutered. While you may not think that having one dog or one cat spayed or neutered can have much of an impact, consider this scenario. An unspayed female cat, her mate and all of their offspring, producing 2 litters per year, with 2.8 surviving kittens per litter can produce over 11.5 million cats within only nine years. So having your pet spayed or neutered can significantly help reduce pet overpopulation.
You dog or cat can be spayed or neutered once they are twelve weeks of age or older. Most pets can home the day of surgery, or they can stay at the hospital overnight to get extra rest after the surgery. All the pets go home with pain medication to help them stay comfortable while recovering. Aftercare involves restricting your pet's activity and monitoring their incision area for 8 days after the surgery until the sutures are removed. All pet's have a complete physical exam before surgery, and we also offer pre-surgical bloodwork to help ensure your pet is healthy enough for anesthesia. If you would like to schedule to have your pet spayed or neutered, or would like to find out more about spaying or neutering, please give us a call, 336-591-8250.
