• CameronDev@programming.dev
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    28 days ago

    Not spaying and neutering can cause behavioural issues (marking territory, aggression)if the pet goes through puberty. So it’s not just sterilisation.

    Make up your own mind on whether that makes it ok or not though.

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      27 days ago

      And it grants them a longer, healthier, and much happier life. If you can’t provide them mates to bonk and aren’t willing to help them raise their kids, the only ethical choices are to either (A) release them and hope they survive or (B) spay/neuter, because subjecting them to lifelong pon farr would be shitty.

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        27 days ago

        I’m definitely pro spay and neuter personally. Another issue is unspayed female cats and dogs will have a period, and I dont think they’ll be very accepting of tampons and pads. My neighbour thought she was gonna breed her dog, so she didn’t spay it, and then basically had to follow around it cleaning up blood. She never bred anything either, she was a bit dim.

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          27 days ago

          personal entertainment slave

          Wait, decades wasted on pets and noone bothered to tell me I could have my own jester?