Spay: chopping years off of dogs?

After all those years, where breeders (whose own dogs weren't spayed), made people sign legal contracts to buy a puppy from them - making them have the puppy spayed, now, finally, someone gets around to figuring out that it isn't just cutting out the dog's ovaries, it's cutting off years of her life.

And those rescue people, and the 'humane' people? Chop it off and cut it out.

In Europe, spaying and neutering is not popular. Maybe we should do it their way, because our system is not working right at all? Maybe, eclectically, we could get a better system by taking the best of all the systems to make one new system.

http://media-newswire.com/release_1107284.html

and wikipedia on neutering (I never looked up neutering on wikipedia, because I have seen neuters done, had neutered and unneutered dogs . . . thought that I understood.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutering

Well, now we know, it is NOT just early (juvenile) neutering and spaying that are harmful.

Maybe we should stop cutting up pets, and retrain the veterinarians to be doctors in a new health care system?