The benefits of surgical gonadec-tomy for female dogs and cats are well-established and unquestioned. However, recent literature has challenged the status of ovariohysterectomy (OVH) as the accepted standard of care for female sterilization here in the United States.1 In some European countries, ovariectomy (OVE) has replaced OVH as the standard procedure advocated. It is understandable that practitioners would be skeptical to abandon OVH, a procedure that most can perform quickly and efficiently, typically with little patient morbidity. Proponents of OVE claim the procedure may create less morbidity than OVH, with no difference in long-term complication rates.
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