06-30-2012, 03:23 PM
(06-30-2012, 02:49 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: I see it more as taking care of children. Sort of like taking care to not let one's 13-year-old daughter get pregnant.
if there were any similarity there you would have to compare it to having your daughter sterilized so that she would not have the option of becoming pregnant.
You touch on a facet of pets versus wild animals here though in that we have domesticated these wild animals and it is in a way our fault that nature does not act upon their existence in the way that it would if they had remained wild.
But I do not see the human as the steward of the animal kingdom. And it is not your own pet that will starve and die because of overpopulation. It is their offspring. The sterilization process is just insurance for protection against what happens if one does not properly monitor their pets or if mistakes occur. The true problem of inattentive and irresponsible pet owners is not solved. Sterilization solves the problem of our pets getting pregnant, but it does not solve the problem of our own irresponsibility.
Breeders do not have such problems because they are extremely attentive to ensuring an environment for their pets whereby their selective breeding process is not tainted. They neither have a population problem nor are any of their pets sterilized so that they can run free without concern.