Oral Contraceptives Could Work For Dogs, Cats, Pigs, Maybe Even Deer And Coyotes

ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2008) — If you’re a land owner and animals such as coyotes or wild pigs are driving you hog wild, help may soon be on the way to control their numbers in a humane way -- in the form of a birth control pill for animals being developed at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. The concept would be to get it to wild animals through baited food, researchers say.

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