BE THE SOLUTION, NOT THE PROBLEM
The importance of spay and neutering by K-9 Angels co-founder Victoria Eisermann
Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy starts with: “To be or not to be? That is the question.” Even most who have never read Shakespeare would be able to recite this quotation. What Hamlet is really contemplating is whether it is better to live or better to die.
Perhaps if the famous playwright William Shakespeare had been a veterinarian as well as a playwright then perhaps the famous opening line would have been: “To spay or not to spay? Is that even a question?” My meaning being that perhaps it is better not to have been born at all than have been born in to a potentially short life of misery and suffering.
Imagine, just for a minute, you are a dog confined to a life behind bars in the worst shelter imaginable where only the very lucky make it out alive. You would most likely be sleeping on a cold wet floor and thrown scraps of food and the resident vet would be named ‘the butcher’. Now imagine for a moment that gruesome scenes like this don’t even have to happen in the first place. In reality they don’t.