Should all people be spayed and neutered to reduce the population? I think that we should spay and neuter all humans to cause a reduction in population. It works for dogs and cats. The cat I bought from the pound was spayed and she never had kittens. Now she%26#039;s a handbag. But I digress- in order to have a major impact, should we not cause the extinction of the human race and allow the planet to return to a state of normalcy?

uhhh. you don%26#039;t get out much . . . do you??

we should but that is our responsibility to do that for ourselves tubes are tied

Well, personally, I don%26#039;t want to see the death of all humans. I think we are a natural part of the planet also and think that eliminating ourselves is a ridiculous idea and contrasts with the natural instincts of all life.

On the other hand, there are several people that I think SHOULD be spayed and neutered. Pedophiles, child abusers, etc. I%26#039;ve noticed that in many cases the worst parents seem to be the best breeders. I%26#039;ve seen several cases of people who have had their children taken away for various reasons just wait and have MORE children. The one that got me the most was a woman who married a man while he was in prison. He was there for raping his 3 year old daughter. She had a 1 year old daughter at the time they were married. When he was released a year later her daughter was removed from the home. He could not legally live with a child that age and she chose him over the child. Then she got pregnant. The state had planned to remove the child at birth, while the couple argued that they could not take the child because it is genetically his and was born after he served his time. He should not have been allowed to remain able to father a child.

Reducing the human population is a wonderful concept that people will sadly, never accept. We don%26#039;t need to eliminate humanity, but we really do need to reduce our numbers. That%26#039;s one reason that people like my husband and myself have elected to adopt instead of having our own genetic children. There are plenty of children that need parents without creating more.

One note on why it is so important for cats and dogs to be spayed and neutered is because 7 kittens and puppies are born for every human. There simply are not enough homes for all of them. A family of four would have to keep 28 animals in their homes at all times. That%26#039;s a lot of fur, food and feces. With the rate of breeding, animal population can grow MUCH faster than the human population.

Take 1 female cat. She can have 2 litters each year, and the average litter is 6 cats. But assume that she has only 2 females each litter. Each female can begin having her own kittens in just 6 months. Let%26#039;s limit each of THEM to only 2 females per litter. In 10 years, when that first mother is beginning to stop breeding, you have a total of 2,324,522,934
FEMALE cats. If each cat had that average litter of 6, she had 4 males also. That means we have 9,298,091,736 MALE cats. A grand total of 11,622,614,670 cats born in 10 years as a result of a single unspayed female and unneutered male.

Not only is that immoral and illegal, it isdownright wrong. Who are you to say who can and can%26#039;t reproduce? It isn%26#039;t even a big issue in the United States, since we are a very well-to-do nation. Sterilization is not something that should be considered for human beings. I think you need your head examined.