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Old 11-06-2009, 07:59 PM   #3
NanoGordeno

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We were getting all this support from the vet and other people to have our pet cat de-sexed. We thought she should have the right to have babies but everyone clouded our judgement including several letters from the Vet. We felt guided by people we knew and by professionals to undertake the task of de-sexing. Well eventually we did take her in to get the operation and then for the first time all the moral issues started to arise in our thoughts. At the time of writing this she is waiting to get operated on, and we are thinking of calling it off.

What do you guys think?
Despite what PETA thinks, pets are not people. They have multiple births because in the wild many, if not most, do not survive. That is not true for pets that live in an artificial environment. Offspring will need to be either destroyed (as would happen in the wild) or supported. Finding homes for these animals means those homes are not available for rescued animals, and even these pets may end up contributing to the feral population which contributes to the destruction of the natural habitat of "native" animals such as birds.

By having a house pet, you have created an unnatural situation that has to be dealt with by other than "natural" means. I know of at least one OC Greek priest who would say that having house pets, in and of itself, is a sin since in his view, animals are to be strictly utilitarian, not pampered, but I don't think he represents the teaching of the Church as a whole.

Unless you plan on running a cat farm and either finding homes for or caring for all the offspring, spaying is the responsible thing to do and the Ecumenical Patriarch would probably back that up as a rather well-known environmentalist.

Or so it seems to this bear of little brain
Herman the not a pet Pooh
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