Healthy Homes for Kids and Pets
			Cat Spay
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The surgeon uses a "spay hook" to help
exteriorize the uterus from the abdominal cavity.  
In dogs and cats the uterus is "Y" shaped with
the body (and cervix) at the base of the Y and an
ovary at the end of each arm of the Y.

Spay hook

Horn of the uterus with
associated blood vessels.  
Head of cat is to the right of
the picture