Are you looking for a veterinary clinic that can neuter your beloved cat or dog without burning a hole in your pocket? You must be looking for Philippines Pet Birth Control Center Foundation (PPBCC).
Located in Boni Avenue, Mandaluyong City, PPBCC is a non-profit organization that gets both cats and dogs fixed at affordable prices. Check out their updated prices for July 2021:
If you go to a regular vet clinic, a spay or neuter procedure would cost around 2,500-3,000 pesos for a pet alone (Not even sure if this is still the price range). So getting your furbaby fixed at PPBCC is worth it, even if you’re coming from a place distant from Mandaluyong City.
Why is it more expensive to have your pets neutered at other clinics compared to them? The answer is: Anesthesia.
According to a vet who shared this information on a Facebook group dedicated to cats some years ago, once a bottle or vial of anesthesia is opened, the unused content can’t be stored again for another procedure. So even if a cat or a dog, with their small sizes, doesn’t need the full content of an anesthesia bottle, pet owners would have to pay for the whole bottle for the reason stated above. And we know how expensive these numbing medications are.
With PPBCC, since they are focused on neutering, especially at low prices, a large number of pets get fixed there every single day. Meaning, they get to use every single drop of anesthesia per bottle.
But why spend money to get our beloved pets fixed?
Well, for cats, any cat lover would know how adorable these fluffy, cuddly feline friends are… Until you get to own one–or more!–and they start getting too noisy at night!
When cats reach puberty, they go into an estrous cycle, also known as a cat’s heat cycle. During this time, cats go from being cute and baby-like to being rowdy–they yowl, female cats’ behind arches up, male cats start spraying all over the house, and they try their best to get out of our home.
According to my research, cats’ breeding season varies depending on environmental and geographical factors, such as the temperature in their location. Those from the Northern hemisphere have it from around January to autumn, while in tropical areas such as the Philippines, especially if the cats live indoors, the season may last throughout the year.
Our first two cats are a male puspin, Ringo, and a female Siamese cat, Sansa, and when they started going into heat cycles, it was a nightmare! We couldn’t get a good night’s sleep for days! Then after a couple of weeks, Sansa, the female one, got preggo.
Sure, it was easy to decide we’d have their kittens adopted except for one. But it’s true that it’s easier said than done. Sansa gave birth to only two cats, and my emotional side told me: It’s unfair to have one adopted then keep another one. Besides, I didn’t know I’d get too attached! So, in the end, from our original plan of having only two cats, we already have four.
So neuter our cats, we go.
It’s more than just the noise and sleepless nights. Cats can get pregnant at least three to four times a year, and they have more than one offspring per birth! Take a look at the photo below:
Of course, there’s always the option of adoption or rehoming, but let’s not forget all those cats that end up on the street and… Ugh… Let’s not talk about all the violence and unfortunate events that could happen to them.
So not wanting history to repeat itself, once our then two new kittens, Hero and Hera, reached the allowable age for a spay and neuter—four months—I immediately brought them to PPBCC. ‘Cause nope, we’re not going through that ordeal again.
Or so we thought. LOL.
My husband wanted a Persian cat, so after a few months of having four cats, we welcomed Tokyo (the one in the first photo above), our fifth feline baby.
Now this one’s strange as far as cat heat cycles are concerned. Tokyo reached four months, then six, then a year old, yet there’s no sign of puberty. So we weren’t in any hurry to get her to PPBCC, which was a good thing since we were in the middle of the pandemic.
Then around Tokyo’s 18th month, I guess, it came! LOL. So you know, it was time to get her fixed.
P.S. I find it weird that they call neutering and spaying “getting fixed.” I mean, are they not normal until they’re devoid of their reproductive capabilities?
Cam here! 