Of the 2000 dogs born every hour in the United States, only one in four gets a permanent home.

Good Reasons for Neutering or Spaying Your Dog:

Cancer: Spaying and neutering greatly reduce the risk that your dog will develop breast or testicular cancer.
 

• Behavioral Problems: A male dog can smell a female in heat up to five miles away. Un-neutered males are much more likely to urinate in the house to mark territory, to display humping behavior, to fight with other male dogs, and to run away from home. Un-spayed females may go through a false pregnancy during which they may select objects from around the house to be their "puppies". They will then guard these objects by growling. Once these behaviors in both the male and female become learned, it is very difficult to stop them.

Not enough homes for them all : Unless you plan to put the time, research, energy, and money into becoming a responsible breeder, spaying or neutering is a must. There are simply too many puppies and kittens for which there are no homes that have to be euthanized every day. There are also far too many diseases running rampant in the purebred populations to set up un-researched, untested matings. Would YOU be willing to take back a diseased puppy? How about eight diseased puppies?