Animal lovers across Salford have welcomed the plans for World Spay Day that will focus on reducing the number of unwanted cats.
The annual day will stand to spread awareness for unwanted pets that have ended up in shelters due owners leaving them unneutered.
World Spay Day will be using its influence to spread the importance of spaying or neutring your pets to reduce the pressure on shelters and protect the cats from harm and disease.
The term ‘Spaying’ is an operation performed to prevent females from getting pregnant and male cats from impregnating females in the future.
The national day is set to be hosted on February 25, and will aim to encourage people to take more care and make further preventions.
And this idea has been backed by residents across Salford who believe that that pets should be spayed or neutered.
According to CATS Protection there are around 10.6 million owned cats in the UK, with it being estimated that 13 per cent of cats are not neutered.
And this was shared by Salford residents, as Dawn Marie Clements said: “Too many pets get dumped or ill because of breeders who don’t care.”
Barbara Hill said: “It is not particularly healthy for your female pets to give birth multiple times.
“If you allow pregnancies to go to term, you then have young to get rid of, usually burdening the overworked pet rescue charities.”
And this was added by Nicole Bassett, who said: “The rescues are overflowing with unwanted pets, particularly cats.
“Unfair on the animals when some let their cats outside not neutered. Tom cats can inflict terrible injuries on each other when a female cat is in season.”
Pet owner Jacqui Beckly also offers an important perspective suggesting that, “if all people could get reduced payments, not just people on low incomes, I feel most people would take it up.”
This shows that Salford pet owners are concerned about the prices that come alongside medical treatments for their pets suggesting that it is not as accessible to some.
As the CATS 2024 report showed that 12 per cent of people who used to own a cat but no longer do say that it’s because they can’t afford it.
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