https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/27516/hlp-with-finding-a-reference I have been trawling the internet for hours with no success!! Can anyone find me a clinical paper or survey that states approx. how many bitches in the UK are spayed? Thank you in advance!! en-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/156789?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:03:16 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:29f95cd7-85e3-442f-a831-481cdcba2642Celine<p>Out of interest (sorry, I have no further info on the subject though!) are you looking for the actual number of bitches that are currently desexed or are you looking to compare the ratio of speyed to entire bitches? Because I imagine with some informed consent a lot of practices would be able to tell you how many speyed vs entire girls they have on their books and you could extrapolate from that (with a reasonable sample size...)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/156780?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:27:07 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:7c372a72-21a0-4493-88fc-92340e1651d2Mark Hedberg<p>I can&#39;t even begin to hazard a guess. I don&#39;t think there&#39;s been a paper on it; any reasonably educated guess would still have acres of space for errors. eg referral clinics perform hardly any bitch spays, and low cost neutering clinics do almost nothing but bitch and cat spays...it would be a fascinating thought experiment but I haven&#39;t the foggiest where to find that answer.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>