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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by psunavy03 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:03AM (#38174008)
My brain spent about 2.5 seconds wondering how the hell you spay or neuter a rat before giving up.
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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by clort on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:19AM (#38174094)
I'm sure I read a [news] story about this many years ago and have wondered what became of it, perhaps these guys?

https://senestech.com/contrapest/

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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by pgeorgi on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:45AM (#38174229)
It can be done to drosophila, as alluded to in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3197105/
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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by strken on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:02AM (#38174329)
It's expensive and risky, and it can be hard to find a specialist vet. I kept pet rats once, and it was easier to just separate the males and females from each other.
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