Don't breed or buy while shelter animals die
There is absolutely no excuse for people not to neuter their pets
There are many benefits of spaying or neutering your pets, both in health and behavioural aspects. It completely prevents mammary, ovarian, uterine and testicular cancer, as well as allows your pet to lead a longer healthier life. It prevents disturbing territorial or sexual behaviour, such as fighting, running away to find a mate and marking their territory. Finally and most importantly, it would keep the animal populations low and less would end up dying in shelters every day.
Did you know that one fertile cat can result in 420,000 kittens in only seven years, and similarly one dog can result in 4,372 puppies? What do you think happens to all these animals? Most of them end up in shelters or worse. The sad thing about shelters is that around 90 per cent of the animals brought in are euthanised due to lack of space.
The dogs are kept in small kennels in a room with dozens of other dogs crying and barking for the families that abandoned them. If the dogs are lucky there will be someone with time to walk them. Other than that, the most human interaction they get is having food slid under the door for them and their waste washed out with a power hose.
If the dog is aggressive, it dies. If it is sick, it dies. If it is perfectly healthy and friendly but there is just no space for it, then also it dies. If the dog is large in size or of a fighting breed, then it is considered dead the moment it is brought in. These types hardly ever get adopted by responsible families no matter how well behaved they are.
This is a cause that all shelters and animal rights activist have been trying desperately hard to bring awareness on for many years.
The UAE government recognises this as a serious issue and has therefore created a law that states that a licence is needed to breed any animal; this is to prevent illegal breeding and selling in places such as puppy mills. As by Federal Law No.16, Article 14: animal breeding, selling and general mistreatment results in a fine between Dh5,000-20,000.
