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                    Desexing your cat or dog

                    A cat.
                    We recommend that cats and dogs be desexed if they are not intended for breeding. Desexing can help make animals less aggressive and easier to control.

                    ​​​​​Lots of healthy animals in Australia are euthanised each year due to over-population. In many cases, animals are bred by accident.

                    Desexing makes it cheaper to register your cat or dog. You can save more than a third of the registration cost. Benefits of desexing include:

                    • helping to reduce over-population
                    • pets being less prone to wander or fight
                    • reducing territorial behaviour such as spraying indoors
                    • pets being less likely to suffer from anti-social behaviours
                    • helping to reduce the risk of certain types of cancer.

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