Were You Aware.............

One female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 dogs in 6 years?

It is estimated that approximately 3.7 million animals were euthanized in the nation's shelters in 2008.  Approximately 56 percent of dogs that enter shelters are euthanized because they are not adopted.

    A dog spayed before her first heat cycle has approximately 0% chance of producing mammary tumors.  After her first heat cycle she has 8% chance, second heat cycle increases her chances to 26%, and if she's left intact she reaches close to 50%.  Approximately 40% of mammary lumps spread to other areas of the body.

Pyometra is when bacteria enters the uterine, grows and causes an infection.  A dog with Pyometra must be spayed immediately, prior to the uterine rupturing and allowing the bacteria to fill the abdomen.