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Old 09-08-2001, 09:35 PM   #29
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Originally posted by onthepequod:
Neutered?!?!? How could you? You brute! You fiend! You socially responsible person!

As a side note, why do you suppose they call it being “fixed.” That is, why do some say “I had my dog fixed today.” I would seem to me ruined or dismantled would be more appropriate. For example, “we took Spike to the vet and had him dismantled.” Other appropriate substitutions could be disarmed, subdued, emasculated, demoted, stripped, or downgraded. Scraped could also be appropriate since the dog’s genetic blueprint will not be perpetuated. Many terms could work but not fixed. Fixed connotes something being righted. I find this wanton use of "fixed" disturbing.


Too funny onthepequod!
I am laughing almost too hard to type!
We should make society use the correct terms shouldn't we? I don't think it is fixing them myself, even though I am conditioned to using that term for the procedure.
Most shocking to me was going in to the vets for the first time with Boo to make an appointment to get him "neutered" only to have the recptionist hand me an appointment card with a smile and say, "OK! Don't let him eat after 6 p.m. the night before his appointment date and get him in by 8 a.m. the next morning to be castrated!" Another proper term of course but "neutered" sounds so much less severe!
Hercules seems to be taking it all too well...it has not slowed him down one bit! He poked his head through the cat door and stole one of my sandals LOL. Lucky for him they were the cheap ones.

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