Beyond preventing unwanted litters of puppies, spaying has been proven to significantly reduce the chance of
your dog getting breast cancer and uterine infections.
Dogs get breast cancer 25 times more often than us humans.
Not exact matches
Did you know that
dogs and cats
get breast, or mammary,
cancer too?
If you spay your female
dog before she has her
breast tissue desensitize at six months of age the chance of her
getting cancer is zero.
It is highly recommended that you
get your female
dog spayed, not only to prevent estrus and accidental pregnancy, but to protect her against
breast cancer and diseases of the reproductive system.
It has been proven that as the female
dog gets older, there is a significant incidence of
breast cancer and uterine infections if she has not been spayed.
Female
dogs that are spayed CA N'T
get uterine
cancers, their risk of mammary (
breast)
cancer is reduced by 25 % and they are less prone to urinary tract infections.1 As early as 6 months of age, female
dogs begin a biannual «heat» cycle during which they attract every unneutered male
dog within 20 miles.
If your
dog is spayed (ovariohysterectomy) before it goes into its first heat cycle, the chances this
dog will
get breast cancer later in life is virtually nil.
It is conventional wisdom and has been shown in studies that as the female
dog gets older, there is a significant incidence of
breast cancer and uterine infections if she has not been spayed.
Spaying a female
dog dramatically reduces the odds of
getting breast cancer if done early in the
dog's life.
Yes, male
dogs, just like male humans, can
get breast cancer, and usually it has a worse prognosis in males than in females.
The single most important thing you can do to protect your
dog from
breast cancer is to
get her spayed before her first heat cycle.
In fact, they are seven times more likely to
get breast cancer than a spayed
dog.