What would happen if everyone neutered their pets?

Question

For example, wouldn't the cat/dog population become extinct if everyone decided to neuter them?

Answer 1

Pet OWNERS should spay/neuter. Professional BREEDERS, don't. Therefore, the population would not become extinct, but the quality of the dogs, would heighten. (The population of mixed breeds would lower, though.)

Answer 2

If pets had to be neutered, yes, there would definitely be less unwanted animals after a time, but I don't believe cats and dogs will ever become extinct.... there are just too many of them. If they were less available though, they might be more valued..... and better treated.

Answer 3

It depends on how sweeping you mean by "pets".
99.9% of those holding a USDA license are puppy mills so if these are th only exemptions the quality & genetic health of dogs will go down since puppy mills don't do the genetic testing. Lack of scocilization will produce more behavior problems and the combo just may increase pound surrender.
Show dogs and performance dogs (such as field trial dogs) are typically kept by a hobby breeder who has 1/2 dozen or a dozen dogs living as pets in his home exempting them would increase the genetic health of dogs but as CA proves wording such exemptions to catch all pets but advoid catching them (especally the preformance dogs who seldom hit competion before a year of age) seems to be beyond the ability of legislatures.
Exempt no one and well I guess they MIGHT be enough feral dogs in say kahekstan to keep the species alive - maybe but USA will be outta dogs in 10 yr.....

Answer 4

If everyone began to neuter their pets the UNWANTED pet population would decrease to the point that careful breeding could be done without adding to an overpopulation problem.

Answer 5

This would not happen. There are other types of dogs and cats that have to be unaltered. Take show dogs for example. They are just a different type of pet, so why keep them unaltered? Because the AKC says that they can't show if they are altered and the fact that they are used for breeding.

Answer 6

This would not happen, because there would still be thousands of strays who are not altered running around. If per say that the canine and feline population fell dangerously low near the brink of extinction (which realistically I do not see happening in my lifetime), animal preservation societies would step in like they have done with many other endangered animals, and take measures to ensure their existence.

Answer 7

No. It's people who have animals as pets should get them desexed. Breeders obviously wouldn't. That way they can monitor how many cat/dogs are being born that need to be sold. If there is a big demand they will breed more of them and vice versa.

Answer 8

It would take a few years, but eventually dogs and cats would become endangered or extinct. I think dogs would probably go first than cats.

Answer 9

The likelihood of that happening is so small that it's not even worth discussing. There are millions probably billions of dogs in the planet who aren’t spayed/neutered.

Answer 10

If all the pets of the world were spayed or neutered then we would have to go to cloned pets.