Sniff What?!
If we all acted like dogs, the pungent smell of someone else's bottom would be better than an iced latte in the morning, a brimming garbage can would look like a buffet, and a trip to the singles bar would always end in a hot date. That sounds like a whole lot of fun—until you start thinking about the social consequences of holding extended bottom-sniffing sessions every morning, having overturned garbage cans in every kitchen, and bringing a new baby into the world whenever two adults so much as caught a whiff of each other.
Sniff That!
While we can rely on our pets to be loyal friends, loving members of the family, and devoted companions, we can't exactly count on them to make informed decisions when it comes to their sex lives. And the consequences of a one-night stand for a dog or a cat are a lot more drastic than a worrying rash or an awkward conversation over breakfast. With 3 to 4 million animals euthanized in shelters every year, the companion animal overpopulation crisis in this country gets exponentially worse every time an ill-advised romp in the hay produces another litter of puppies or kittens. As animal guardians, it is our responsibility to make sure that our animal companions don't have more litters.
Animal birth control is as easy as ABC, and taking your animal companion to be spayed or neutered is an absolute necessity. It's also essential to adopt from a shelter, if we want to do right by our animal companions. There's not much that stinks worse than the shameless profiteering of the animal sex trade, which masquerades as "responsible breeding."
People can be dawgs sometimes, but that doesn't mean that we should rely on dogs and cats to make the responsible choices that people are expected to make.
