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From: suki@reed.UUCP (Monica Nosek)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Neutering Dogs
Message-ID: <892@reed.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 16:35:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  4 16:35:24 1985
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In article <5346@duke.UUCP> jbd@duke.UUCP (Joanne B. Dugan) writes:
>
>	When I got my dog (just a puppy then) from the local dog
>	pound, they gave me the address of the "Friends of the
>	Animals" (sorry, I don't have the address any more, 
>	it's somewhere in New Jersey).  They (the FOA) sold me a 
>	"certificate" good for having my dog neutered at a participating
>	vet.  There was only one participating vet in the area
>	(he was about an hour's drive away).  At the time
>	(about 2 years ago), I had a large male dog and a
>	medium-large female dog neutered for about $55 (for both).
>	This vet's regular charge for the service would have
>	been twice that amount.  

YES!!!  If you are planning to have ANY animal spayed or
neutered, call your local animal control agency before going
to the nearest vet.  We recently got a kitten from the pound,
and we were given a certificate for a vet check, etc.  This
certificate applys only to this particular kitten; our other
cat, who is 6 months old and about due for spaying, doesn't
get the benefit of the shelter's financial help at this particular
vet's.  The price quoted us was $50...a bit steep for us
starving students :-)  BUT...we discovered that another
clinic, subsidized by the County Animal Control, will only
charge us $15 or $20.  
	SO SHOP AROUND!!!!!  And DO have your animal spayed
or neutered if you  don't intend to use them for breeding (and
I don't mean "Just one litter so the kids can see the miracle
of birth").  Something to think about:  the woman at the
pound said that since their funding had been cut, they no
longer picked up stray cats unless they were injured (or
dead).  The cats they get are either brought in by people who
find them or by people who have had their fill of kittens and
don't want to drown them themselves--they think, "The shelter
will find  a home for them."  But this shelter is getting
many more kittens every week than will ever be adopted.  They
don't last very long...
			Ciao,
				Monica
about 8 weeks old, and not ready for spaying, but our other
cat is about 6 months.  We asked the vet who did the
-- 
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Monica Nosek         Reed College, Portland, OR
               "Double it!"