neuter
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Cat euthanasia rates at Los Angeles shelters have climbed this year, partially due to limited spay and neuter vouchers and the high cost of veterinary care, animal advocates say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Others also neuter stray cats and dogs to stop their populations from growing.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
His legislation would also provide free vaccinations and spay or neuter services to the felines.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
To admit facts but strip them of consequence is to neuter the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness standard.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2025
To make hybrids, Mendel had to first neuter each flower by snipping off the anthers—emasculating it—and then transfer the orange blush of pollen from one flower to another.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The 5th Circuit’s ruling neuters a law that Congress enacted in 2020 to impose nationwide standards on the horse racing industry after the existing state-by-state patchwork failed to prevent equine fatalities and corruption scandals.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2026
As a key oil producer, Saudi Arabia is relied upon to surge output and stabilize markets during crises, but any physical degradation of its export capacity neuters this critical fail-safe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
The group feeds, spays and neuters cats, and places them into adoption.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Those feelings of rage, and how the bully behaves, neuters and neutralizes them.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2022
The great majority in every nest are neuters, not producing young; these are the workers, and they are destitute of wings.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Blair said shelters closed their doors because the facilities were deemed nonessential, and as a result, many animals were not spayed and neutered and many were left on the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Such clout also made Zhang a potential alternate power center to Xi, who has routinely neutered even latent threats to his dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
Maybe it’s steerish, a steer being a neutered bull.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Earlier this month, the seasonal effect was neutered by stock-market weakness.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
Not pure merchandise as formerly but livestock: bred, neutered.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
She is also an advocate for making spaying and neutering, which typically costs several hundred dollars, more affordable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Most of the animals that come in require medical treatment, neutering and surgery, which can become costly for the sanctuary, and they need new foster homes to be readily available.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
These would include vet visits, mandatory spaying or neutering, and ensuring the cats have sufficient food, water and a safe place to sleep.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
The mere threat of that — of publicly and explicitly neutering the Senate — could be enough for the GOP caucus to get in line.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024
They specifically looked at the correlation between neutering or spaying a dog before 1 year of age and a dog's risk of developing certain cancers.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
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