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Fewer animals are born each year, thanks to broader spay and neuter programs, often dictated by law, and improved surgical techniques.

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Around the same time, in the late 2000s, veterinarians launched a concerted effort to spay and neuter more dogs and cats.

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Many people with companion animals in their homes do disagree about issues such as spaying and neutering policies, euthanasia or pet food.

A few years ago, Woods organized volunteer pilots to pick up feral cats from the island to be spayed and neutered.

Other shelters have had long-standing overcrowding issues because their states don’t have strong campaigns that encourage pet owners to spay and neuter their animals.

She says the Humane Society would like to enforce spay and neuter laws to the point where there would be no purebred dogs left.

In a land where resources are scarce, and spay-neuter initiatives are only starting to make inroads, this is not surprising.

In the course of time, they drank four-and-twenty, when Spay said to the other, "Now we'll go."

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spay, such as: castrate, neuter, alter, antisepticize, autoclave, and change.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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