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Spaying of the female dog is undertaken to control the unwanted pregnancy. It reduces the aggressiveness of the dog helps to control the population of stray animals.

Spaying is a surgical procedure that removes the ovaries from the female dog. Experienced veterinarians are required to do the spaying procedure and post-operative care is to be given more emphasis.

If proper control measures are not taken after the surgical operation for the removal of the ovaries, then infections may start setting in and the animal may develop peritonitis and then toxemia sets in, causing unwanted health problems.

Death of the dog may even occur, if the dog is not provided effective and proper veterinary care.

A female dog generally comes into heat once every eight months or so. During this period, there is bleeding from vagina which attracts the male dog but the spaying activity prevents all of this.

A female dog that is spayed before the occurrence of first heat will have almost a zero chance of development of mammary cancer, which is more common with the dogs that are not spayed. Older dogs that have not been spayed may often get signs of increased thirst, anorexia, and vomiting that are so common with pyometra.

Pyometra is the presence of pus in the uterus.  Once pyometra occurs, it involves many discomforts to the animal and the therapy can be quite expensive. Fortunately, pyometra is totally prevented by spaying because in the case of spaying, you are removing both ovaries and the uterus.