Desexing operation
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Desexing operations in animals are designed to not only stop reproduction as a population control, but also to prevent some of the unwanted secondary sex characteristics in adult animals and decrease sexual behavior. Castration of males has been carried out for centuries, and, in originally, had more to do with increasing palatability of meat and decreasing aggressiveness in male farm animals than with population control. Spaying of females is rarely done in farm animals, since it is a relatively major surgery that does not offer the same advantages. In pets, spaying and neutering not only serve as the maor means of reducing unwanted animals, but make the animal more amenable to household living.