World Spay Day
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1 min readFeb 22, 2016
If a street dog or cat could read a calendar, it would circle in red the last Tuesday in February. It’s World Spay Day, when volunteers round up strays in an effort to humanely control their populations.
In Russia, street dogs and cats are a common sight, sometimes even riding on the Moscow Metro. To be fair, they’ve played an important role in Russian society. Drooling street dogs helped Ivan Pavlov win a Nobel Prize. Laika, a street dog from Moscow, was the first living being in space. Feral cats protect the artifacts of the State Hermitage Museum from marauding mice and rats.
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