Drug Could Someday Replace Spaying for Dogs

Arizona scientist working on alternative Chemspay
By Sarah Whitmire,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 23, 2011 1:34 PM CDT
Drug Could Someday Replace Spaying for Dogs
An Arizona scientist is working on an alternative to surgical spaying.   (Shutterstock)

An Arizona scientist hopes to make the surgical spaying of dogs a thing of the past. The Arizona Republic takes note of the drug Chemspay, which shows promise as a cheaper (and less painful way) of sterilizing female dogs. It evolved out of menopause studies on mice by Dr. Loretta Mayer, who successfully tested it on strays on a Navajo reservation at the request of its animal shelter's director.

“He said to me, ‘If you could do for a dog what you do for a mouse, I wouldn’t have to kill 400 animals a month,’” Mayer said. She hopes to begin FDA trials next, but approval would still be years away. (More Humane Society stories.)

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