0 to remove the ovaries of a female animal:
We're having the cat spayed.
1 to remove the organs that produce eggs from an animal
Clearly, the agreement is that all store cattle shall be spayed.
Is it too much to expect chemists and veterinarians to produce a pill or a powder for dogs and cats without having to spay them?
I would put one special case of remission which has not yet been mentioned, that is for spayed dogs.
I agree that spaying centres would be a useful development to solve some of the problems.
Their owners cannot always afford to have them spayed as that is expensive nowadays.
I propose to leave out paragraph (ii) and to insert a new paragraph to ensure that animals are spayed before shipment.
He said very properly that it was impossible for a spayed heifer to abort.
Spaying or neutering is quite a serious step.
