Dr. Liz Walker

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Australian Finance Podcast · Real cost of pet ownership in Australia · 31 Jan 2022 podcast

We advocate for early desexing.

And that would be from around about three months of age.

For cats, for two reasons.

The main reason is they can start having babies at, you know, four or five months.

Okay.

And you really don't, that's not safe for them.

But we also don't need any more cats in Australia.

I've already said I love cats, but they are the species that we have the most trouble with in terms of having an abundance of them.

Yeah.

And issues with their welfare also.

their impact on wildlife and community wellbeing.

So we really just need to be really careful with that.

So one cat and her offspring over, I think, five years can generate about 7,000 cats.

So they're pretty good at reproducing, so get them desexed.

The other reason, it's also very safe to desex cats when they're young.

With dogs, they definitely need to be desexed too.

We would normally say,

you know, when they're very young puppies, six months.

When they're bigger breeds, it might be a bit longer.

Either way, getting animals desexed is really important because if you're not a breeder and you don't know what you're doing, it's a risky business.

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