Quote Originally Posted by caseysmom
I think its about time.
Even though the premise behind MSN is not proven to work?

And at four months, treating every breed of dog exactly the same way as a kitten?

In 2006, Deborah L. Duffy, Ph.D., and James A. Serpell, Ph.D., Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania presented material on "Non-reproductive Effects of Spaying and Neutering on Behavior in Dogs". This is part of a worldwide symposium of Animal professionals who have collected data on thousands of animals.

Their very interesting slide show is available to the public in a PDF document.
http://www.acc-d.org/2006%20Symposiu...ession%20I.pdf

I am taking the liberty of posting some images here. I will however remove the images if asked. Everyone can go to the source and get the full document from above.













Do go check it out
http://www.acc-d.org/2006%20Symposiu...ession%20I.pdf

I'm not advocating to stop spay and neuter, I am however advocating that the decision to spay or neuter a pet that is not from a shelter be the choice of the owner and the veterinarian to make for themselves.

The government should not be involved with forcing everyone to comply with policy that is not based on fact. As you can see above, this is NOT about HEALTHY PETS.

If I am asked to remove the slides, I will do so. There are many more, and more detail than I can put here.

But the main document is at this site which also has quite a bit of other animal health info in relation population control issues.
http://www.acc-d.org/

Once again, public policy should be based on facts. MSN has proven that it doesn't work. And from the facts above, it's quite clear that there is a lot of outdated information floating around. Some of the problem sets above are actually reasons that animals are surrendered to the shelters.