Alright, so I’m all about family planning, right? I believe in easy access to various types of birth control methods for EVERY PERSON so that every person can find the method that is right for them. When people can control their family size, they have more opportunity for education, wealth and happiness. I think it is no surprise that I am opposed to forced or coerced sterilization or reproductive control… for people.
Yet I am a huge fan of sterilizing pets. The Humane Society explains that one should sterilize pets because there are plenty of pets in the world that are already unwanted, homeless, and/or euthanized. On a personal level, I spayed and neutered my cats because I knew I didn’t want any more cats. I did not and never intend to have the space, time and money to care for 6-10 cats. If my cats could make the decision for themselves to reproduce or not, I would let them. But of course, they cannot, so the responsibility is mine. So sterilizing my cats comes from a place of personal responsibility, just as I use birth control because I know I currently do not have the resources to care for another human. (Bob Barker had it right).
Obvious conclusion. Why did I write about it?
Mostly because it is just ruminations in family planning, so it is remotely relevant to this blog. But also because I have been getting this weird feeling that my female cat would be sad if she realized she will never have kittens. There is just something about her that makes me think she would really enjoy being a mother-cat.
(Is this the first step to going baby-crazy?)
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