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- From: tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle Moore)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.dogs
- Subject: Re: Get Your Pet Neutered
- Message-ID: <2B65B72B.1700@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:11:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ics.2B65B72B.1700
- References: <1993Jan25.074302.1259@lth.se> <1993Jan25.061309.657@news.wesleyan.edu> <1993Jan26.143349.8857@lth.se> <1993Jan26.154736.2208@inel.gov>
- Reply-To: tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle Moore)
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- In <1993Jan26.154736.2208@inel.gov> kkv@inel.gov (Jamie J Ferguson) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan26.143349.8857@lth.se> dag@seldon.control.lth.se (Dag Bruck) writes:
- >>PS: Please help me to find the correct word. "Spay" relates to
- >>bithes and "neuter" to dogs; what is the sex-neutral word? I have
- >>used "castration" which is the Swedish word used (translated, of
- >>course).
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- >I've always heard the term "fixed" applied generically. I don't
- >think castration is correct for females, but I could be wrong.
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- You spay females and you castrate males.
- Neuter is the sex-neutral term, but is often used instead of castrate.
- "Fix" is a colloquialism that is also sex-neutral.
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- --Cindy
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- Cindy Tittle Moore
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