Desexing pets

Every year thousands of unwanted litters are euthanased by pounds. If you own a pet desexing is part responsible pet  ownership.

Desexing has many benefits to reduce behaviours such as:

MALES
Aggression and fighting.
Territorial urination and marking.
Helps stop the desire to wander to mate & road accidents
Prevents the risk of TESTICULAR, PROSTATE and ANAL CANCERS.

FEMALES
Unwanted pregnancies.
Messy season that occurs twice yearly.
Prevents uterine infections, pyometra
Prevents the risk of OVARIAN, UTERINE and BREAST CANCERS.

Sorry, but this post really upsets me.
Go to a euthanasia room at a shelter and watch home many animals are put down every day and then ask if desexing animals is a bad idea. It's desexing your pet or being responsible for millions and millions of healthy animals being killed every year.

There are so many pets in shelters, being put down every day. People need to stop letting their pets breed. Even if you don't plan it, pets can and do get out and run off, which is where accidents can happen... (like a litter of pups).
Plus it stops the risk of any cancers associated with the baby making devices

Some people worry about their animal, particularly male animals, disliking having no balls...
The thing I explained to my boyfriend the other day, is dogs and cats don't really think of their balls like humans do. They don't know what purpose they serve. My dog is desexed. The only difference it made to him is now he has one (two) less itchy spots to scratch. He is still quite a "manly' dog and he still likes to mount females, particularly those in heat, whenever he can *rolls eyes*
He has no idea haha.

I'd much rather more shelter dogs be adopted than more puppies being bred from random pet dogs who probably aren't even fit for breeding. (I'd never want a dog like mine to be bred, puppy mill dog with health problems and aggression since a young pup)

Considering that we have already changed their entire way of living by domesticating them, we are responsible for the results of domestication, which mean you must help your pet control sexual urges which can lead to behaviour that can put them at risk. Therefore - desex

I am very pro-desexing so I agree with the other responses.

Another thing to consider is that allowing an animal to go through a pregnancy and give birth, and then taking away their children in a matter of weeks, is not giving the animal any rights or allowing them to experience parenthood.
Cats and dogs are both social animals and remain with their young for much longer than that in the wild, especially dogs, who can remain in family packs for years.
I know someone who used to breed both dogs and cats, who said that the mothers would search the house for their babies for days after they were rehomed. Of course, the babies also get distressed when they are first separated from their mothers.

You said, "I certainly would not be impressed if my right to have offspring was taken away without my consent."
So my question to you is, how would you feel if you were allowed to have offspring, but your baby was taken away from you without your consent shortly after birth? Is that any better?