![]() A female cat could potentially have up to four litters in a season, which is why controlling the homeless cat population tends to be even more difficult than with dogs. ![]() Female cats have a seasonal heat cycle, which is most of the year, and can go into heat roughly once a month during that time. This combination of circumstances can result in animals being euthanized.Ī female dog goes into heat roughly two times a year, which means they could potentially have two unwanted litters in a year. Seattle Humane runs a high-quality and high-value spay and neuter program, but not all shelters have the capacity or resources to provide this service, let alone to care for so many unwanted animals. This scenario plays out in animal shelters in the United States and around the world. We see unwanted litters come through Seattle Humane regularly, and particularly during kitten season. There is the added expense of caring for a litter of puppies or kittens, not to mention the potential complications that can arise during the pregnancy and while giving birth your mother-to-be could require an emergency C-section. Let’s start with the very simple fact that unaltered cats and dogs can get pregnant and, in many cases, this is an unexpected and undesired surprise for pet owners. While there are varying opinions regarding the age when spay and neuter surgeries should be performed, the majority of veterinary experts agree it will result in better behaved and healthier pets. Every shelter pet that comes through Seattle Humane is spayed or neutered before going home with their new families, but maybe you have an unaltered pet at home and are on the fence. World Spay/Neuter Awareness Month is a perfect opportunity every year in February for veterinary professionals to raise awareness and promote these lifesaving procedures. There are many reasons to spay or neuter your pets, beyond the obvious desire to avoid unwanted pregnancies and address the pet homelessness crisis. Caitlin Malarkey performs a spay surgery inside the Schuler Family Medical Center ![]() And, like Requiem for a Dream, it’s a one-and-done proposition: You’ll be happy you sat through it, and even happier that you’ll never have to again.Seattle Humane Senior Staff Veterinarian Dr. Yet structurally-particularly during the many junctures when the actors break through the proscenium and talk directly to the audience-it’s meant to annoy you, an adroit commentary on our info-overloaded 21st-century culture. And the first half of Lisa Loomer’s 2007 play is positively grating resisting the urge to rush onstage and coldcock either Jesse (child abuse, but so worth it) or his mother takes more willpower than shunning the advances of Roger Sterling in a country-club lounge. This all sound a little dated? Well, it is. His folks (Heather Hawkins and Brandon Felker) are split over whether to zombify him with Ritalin or Adderall, a debate that threatens their marriage and is made all the murkier by the fact that seemingly every supporting player-including the family shrink-is on some sort of crack-like antidepressant. He includes a “fuck” in every utterance, tells his mom he wants to kill her, and cranks up Eminem in his room instead of going to bed. Young Jesse (real-life middle-schooler Cameron Lee), you see, is stricken with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ![]() Snip, the famed vasectomist, were to hitch his wagon to the latest culinary craze and open a “pop-up” clinic next door to ArtsWest, and if he worked late enough to catch exiting male theatergoers, he’d have to auction off appointments, so robust would demand be for on-the-spot sterility. Centered on the pharmaceutical and behavioral travails of a quarreling couple’s only child, Distracted is a two-hour birth control pill. ![]()
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