[OnyxCougar]

Originally posted by quzah
If you really believe that they would choose to be spayed with you, do this:

1) Get a new born kitten.
2) Install a cat door.
3) Do not sterilize your cat.
4) Be amazed when your cat comes and goes as it pleases, running around the neighborhood mating at every oportunity.

You see, you are flat out wrong. Your animal would not choose to be sterilized. Period. No animal would choose sterlization. Since LB is so big on biology, this should be crystal clear. Remember "hard wired"? Well no animal on earth would choose sterilization, especially since the sterilization done commonly would alter their normal behavior.

You can pretend all you want that they'd like it, but the fact is, you're wrong. No animal would opt for this. It goes against their "hard wiring".

No animal would choose to be spayed or nutering. Period. You're kidding yourself if you say you believe otherwise.

That being said, I have never said it was a bad thing to keep the "pet population" under control. I simply stated that no animal would choose the operation. It is asanine to believe so.

Quzah.

I agree with Quzah here, up to a point, which is:

The animal can't choose. It can't tell us whether or not it opts for it. I believe before the bitchfest started and points were being made, someone made a post about (...anthro....humano... that word where we make animals seem human....morpha sumfin...)-ing them, but the fact is they don't have a choice.

As their caretakers, we choose for them. I choose to spay and neuter my pets because I believe it's the humane and responsible thing to do.