Pet Assistance Foundation: About

Every year local pounds and humane societies kill 300,000 loving and adoptable pets because there are no homes for them. Countless others are abandoned to the streets, left to die on the freeways, or fall victim to unspeakable cruelty. Unless we alter the future now, this tragedy will continue.

Why? Because the reproductive rate of cats and dogs is enormous. Since 1955, Pet Assistance Foundation has been referring concerned pet owners to cooperating Southern California veterinarians who offer low cost sterilization.

Through our network of volunteers, we are here to assist you in joining countless other caring cat and dog owners in Southern California who already have taken responsibility for the future by altering their pets.

Pet Assistance Foundation is here to help you understand that:

• No female dog or cat need have even a single litter. Veterinarians recommend spaying them before they come into heat, as a precaution against reproductive cancers. Puppies and kittens can be altered as early as 8 weeks of age. Cats should be spayed no later than the age of five months. Dogs should be spayed before six months of age. Spaying after the first heat can cost more.
  
  
• Male dogs and cats do not lose their masculinity when altered. They are happier, healthier, and better companions. They are less frustrated, less inclined to roam or run away, and will never develop prostate tumors. Male dogs and cats should be altered by 6 to 7 months of age, if not sooner.
  
  
• Cats and dogs do not get "fat and lazy" after altering. Obesity is caused by overfeeding and insufficient exercise.
  
  
• You will never regain the cost of your "purebred" dog if you breed her. The average cost of rearing a litter of puppies to an adoptable age of 8 to 12 weeks, along with the prenatal and post-natal veterinarian services, far exceed any profit you will earn.
  
  
• A dog or cat in heat or pregnant can be spayed. There is no reason to bring unwanted puppies and kittens into the world when eight out of ten pets are killed because there are no homes.
  
  
• If you illustrate the "miracle of birth" with a litter of kittens or puppies, you are lying to your children. What kind of miracle is it that condemns 300,000 loving pets to death each year?