Why do we Crop/Dock? Point #6 - The Surgical Issues

Elective surgery includes de clawing of cats, spaying, and neutering which are more invasive surgeries, and carry more risk. All are done for the convenience of the owners. Even now, with all the negative hormonal and health issues attached to early spay/neuter! Spay neuter programs have misled the public about their worth. We now know that the numbers of animals – whether purebred or random bred - dying in shelters has very little to do with how many are being born, and that purebred dogs represent only 7.3 percent of all animals received by shelters nationwide (USA American Humane Association study data). http://www.naiaonline.org/articles/archives/lemlaw1.htm. And yet spaying and neutering are vigorously encouraged.