What does spaying involve?

What does spaying involve?

• A. Spay involves removing ovaries and uterus
• B. Spay involves removing testicles
• C. Spay involves removing only ovaries
• D. Spay involves tying off the vas deferens

Answer: (A)

Spaying is the surgical sterilization of a female dog, achieved by removing the reproductive organs. In practice, this is an ovariohysterectomy, where both ovaries and the uterus are removed. This procedure prevents pregnancy, stops heat cycles, and lowers the risk of certain reproductive diseases. That’s why this option is the best answer: spaying specifically refers to removing the female reproductive tract. Removing testicles describes neutering a male; removing only the ovaries would be an ovariectomy (not the full spay, since the uterus is left behind); tying off the vas deferens is a male sterilization procedure and not related to spaying.

Spaying is the surgical sterilization of a female dog, achieved by removing the reproductive organs. In practice, this is an ovariohysterectomy, where both ovaries and the uterus are removed. This procedure prevents pregnancy, stops heat cycles, and lowers the risk of certain reproductive diseases.

That’s why this option is the best answer: spaying specifically refers to removing the female reproductive tract. Removing testicles describes neutering a male; removing only the ovaries would be an ovariectomy (not the full spay, since the uterus is left behind); tying off the vas deferens is a male sterilization procedure and not related to spaying.