Products: Food for Naught

Food for Naught

Happiness may be a warm puppy. But too many puppies do not always bring happiness. Now, Carnation has a simple solution for people worried about having a population explosion in the family kennel: contraception in a can. The California company last week asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve its Extra Care Birth Control Dog Food. The product contains the drug ; mibolerone, which when consumed daily prevents the onset of estrus in female dogs. Says Carnation Spokeswoman Barbara Royer: "This is an alternative to spaying that is safe, effective, reversible, economical and available to everybody." The market should be...

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