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one surgery, zero puppies, infinite fewer trips to the shelter.
means a surgical procedure that removes a female animal's ovaries (and usually uterus) so she can't reproduce.
from from old french espeer, meaning to cut with a sword — which is a dramatic way to describe what is now a routine 20-minute operation.
male versioncalled neutering or castration, not spaying
recovery timemost pets bounce back in 10-14 days
cancer preventiondrastically cuts risk of mammary tumors, pyometra
one female dogcan produce 67,000 descendants in 6 years, unspayed
for instance
aspca programs — performs hundreds of thousands of low-cost spays yearly across the us
tnr feral cats — trap-neuter-return programs spay feral colonies to stop overpopulation
bob barker sign off — the price is right host urged viewers for decades: have your pets spayed