Large animal practitioners have long
practiced early neutering on their livestock and consider it not only acceptable, but desirable in many cases.
Not exact matches
Although some veterinarians still suggest waiting until six months, advocates of
early spay and
neuter are proving the benefits of that
practice.
Many veterinarians are now
practicing early spay and
neuter to prevent tragedies of this sort.
Many veterinarians now
practice early spay and
neuter.
And, until recent years,
early - age (kitten) spay /
neuter was not
practiced (kittens go into heat between 4 and 6 months and traditional conventional - wisdom was to spay a cat at 6 month of age.)
In my
practice, we encourage
early spays and
neuters since our pediatric patients have much shorter anesthesia and surgical times than adult animals and are up and about almost immediately.
If you are an
early neutering veterinary
practice and not on the register yet, please click here for more information and to sign up today.
Neuter / return feral cat control came into widespread
practice in the U.S. in the
early 1990s, after a decade of use in Kenya, South Africa, and the U.K., and experimental use since 1980 by Annabell Washburn on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Veterinarians who support
earlier - age spay and
neuter are encouraged to list their
practice on the Fix by Five web page to support this important movement.
Laws banning ear cropping, tail docking, debarking, declawing, or enforcing
early spay and
neuter protocols attempt to dictate how you
practice medicine.
These winds of change from old school thinking patterns to the current procedures being
practiced today began with an important study conducted in 1987 which concluded that
neutering dogs and cats much
earlier than the traditional puberty or old age period had no ill effects.
For a copy of Dr. Mackie's speech «
Early Age
Neutering: Perfect for Every
Practice,» presented at the North American Veterinary Conference 2000, visit www.ahimsatx.org/easn/easnmm.
An increasing number of shelters and animal rescue groups have adopted the
practice of
early - age
neuter / spay, enabling them to make sure all of their adopted animals are sterilized.
Given the widespread
practice of
neutering in the U.S., especially with public campaigns promoting
early neutering, and the contrast with
neutering practices in other developed countries, the objective of this project was to retrospectively examine the effects of
neutering on the risks of several diseases in the same breed, distinguishing between males and females and
early or late
neutering versus remaining intact using a single hospital database.
Early - age spay /
neuter and spay /
neuter before adoption
practices are a good investment: implementing these programs means you can stop spending resources on follow - up to sterilization compliance, paperwork, and caring for the «oops» litters from adopted cats.
There has been some controversy over this
practice as it flies in the face of tradition but all research to date has shown no negative consequences to
early neutering.
There are several indications that
early age
neutering is not a new concept, but rather, one that has not yet entered into the mainstream of our small animal
practice.
Build Your
Practice by Offering
Early Age Spaying &
Neutering, W. Marvin Mackie, DVM For a copy of Dr. Mackie's speech «
Early Age
Neutering: Perfect for Every
Practice,» presented at the North American Veterinary Conference 2000
Since the 1980s, when the Massachusetts deposit law was considered a novel approach, knowledge about
early spay /
neuter has increased and the
practice is now widely accepted.
I want to point out to you why
early neutering is perfect for your
practice.