Empowering You to Respect and Care for Animals

Neutering your cats and dogs is one of the most important things you can do for your pets (companion animals).

Over 300,000 kittens are born in Ireland every year. Of those 180,000 kittens die before they are 4 months old. What kills these kittens in Ireland? Hunger, disease, exposure and people (see Kitten Mortality for more information). There are no statistics for how many felines are killed in shelters. We do know that in 2009 a total of 6,500 dogs were destroyed in Irish pounds. Every day 45 dogs were taken to the pounds that year.  The Department of Agriculture figures indicate that this figure is decreasing, but it's not because we are solving the problem - it is because rescue centres and dedicated individuals are getting to these dogs before they are destroyed. This is not a solution, it is a band-aid over a broken leg.

And very soon it will stop making a difference. The problem is overpopulation. And the easy solution is neutering.

These  pages intend to give you all the information you need to know about neutering animals: pets, companion animals, feral cats and abandoned dogs.