The word "spay" is a correct and usable word in written English.
Spay is a verb, and it means to surgically remove an animal's reproductive organs, usually as a means of birth control. Example: We took our cat to the vet to get spayed.
"Through spay, neuter, transfer and adoption programs, we think New York City can close the gap toward becoming a 'no-kill community' by 2015," said Matthew Bershadker, the president and chief executive of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, one of 150 rescue groups and shelters that make up the Mayor's Alliance for N.Y.C.'s Animals.
New York City has reached an agreement with animal-advocacy groups under which it will avoid having to build full-time shelters in Queens and the Bronx, but will step up its efforts to sterilize feral cats and to require owners to spay or neuter free-roaming cats.
Additionally, if these irresponsible pet owners do not spay or neuter their free-roaming cats, they will contribute to an increased number of feral cats, thereby compounding the wildlife problem even further.
Encouraging people to spay and neuter their dogs, especially males, they say, can also have a calming effect on canines.
Despite its name, the A.S.P.C.A. was at the time a fairly parochial organization that took in contributions of $32 million a year and focused largely on placing animals in homes and increasing spay and neuter rates in the New York area.
As the small-fry pimp Pompey (Carson Elrod) sarcastically asks Angelo's fellow administrator, Escalus (the fine John Cullum), when he learns of the strict new laws governing sex: "Does your worship mean to geld and spay all the youth of the city?" After leaping from that bed full of fetid creatures, Mr. Pisoni's agitated Duke seems at first to be in flight from his own neuroses.
PAWS Chicago, which aims to prevent animal deaths in that city, will distribute Petco food and products through its spay-and-neuter clinic.
Peta US addresses the animal overpopulation crisis directly through its mobile spay-and-neuter clinics which offer free and low-cost sterilisation surgeries.
In 2006, PetSmart Charities provided $2.3 million in grants to develop a large-scale spay-neuter project in Louisiana and Mississippi, to underwrite animal emergency response team training and establish a fleet of emergency animal trailers.
"Spay-neuter has to go hand in hand with education and legislation".
'No,' I told him, 'I don't want to know it's in there somewhere.'" Lethem isn't the only fiction writer to 'spay' his laptop (Gates's phrase); Wells Tower has a similar strategy that requires two desks, fiction and non, where only the non-fiction computer has Internet capability.
