It’s imperative you sterilise your pets

Jan 10, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
What a great advocate Syeada is for the voiceless animals. I wish I was there helping her, but I will never return to Guyana again, due to ill health. My thanks, at least, go out to her doing a thankless job which she loves so much.
I agree with everything she said and I can’t believe that people in Guyana have so many animals that they really can’t look after them properly.
Wouldn’t it be far better to have perhaps two healthy, sterilised dogs, than to have six or eight mangy, diseased, unsterilised and under-fed dogs, which are usually on the roads, re-producing unwanted puppies? Guyana has too many strays as it is.
It is so imperative to sterilise both male and female dogs – females, to lengthen their lives and not to become diseased by the constant pregnancies from males who have been around with hundreds of other bitches.
Males, to prevent them from getting testicular cancer and to stop them straying into areas, where cruel people live and want to harm your beloved pets.
It goes both ways, so neither will become diseased; they become calmer after sterilising and are more affectionate. It’s a simple operation for both sexes.
It’s also important to sterilise both male and female cats because not only do they re-produce every four months [unlike a dog at six months], they can produce many thousands of offspring over a short period of time.
The larger animals like stallions, should be gelded, [the horsey word for sterilising a male] to also calm them down and to thwart any fights with other stallions while they are working when there is a mare in season.
I’ve seen fights outside the lumber yards in Georgetown while I was living in Guyana, between two stallions when there was a mare in season and injuries can be terrible for these majestic animals. This operation is not even an hour’s work for the competent Vet.
Life would become much easier for everyone in Guyana and around the world if all male and female animals were sterilized, unless one was breeding with it, to better the breed in general.
I must say lastly, that it always applies to the non furry male!
Nicole Fitzsimmons
Ex member of the GSPCA

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