This is someone’s tame cat who occasionally shows up at one of my colonies I...
A Reader’s Forum story by Barbara Posted April 26, 2019 THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MALE CATS ARE NOT NEUTERED!!!!! CAT FIGHTS!!! This is someone’s tame cat who occasionally shows up at one of my...
View ArticleMan tried to do a DIY cat castration
Do you become as enraged as I do by stories like this? This is the extraordinary story of an unqualified Michigan man who thought he would save money by neutering a male domestic cat belonging to his...
View ArticleDo private practice veterinarians desex cats later than shelters and if so why?
I have just been informed by the authors of a study on the impacts of pet cats on Australian wildlife that animal shelters desex cats when they are younger than four months of age because the focus is...
View ArticleWe need to interview people who fail to sterilise their cats
Pretty well daily we read stories of people who have gotten in over their heads in caring for cats because of one simple, glaring error: they failed to sterilise (spay or neuter) their cat or cats as...
View ArticleHas coronavirus slowed down the spaying and neutering of feral cats in America?
I guess were not going to know the true effect that the coronavirus pandemic has had on feral cat population numbers until well into the future but the story from South Texas hints at a possible...
View ArticleSpaying and neutering is ethical while declawing is not
Sometimes I see the argument that cat declawing is no different from de-sexing; the spaying and neutering of cats. They argue that they are both mutilations for the benefit of people. This is a poor...
View ArticleWhat’s up with cat humping, anyway?
I have brazenly lifted the title to this post from the Catster.com website. The title interested me. I thought how often do people see domestic cats humping? For the sake of complete clarity humping is...
View ArticleWhy do veterinarians sterilize cats with a gonadectomy rather than a tubal...
Vets in American nearly always sterilize female and male cats with a procedure called a gonadectomy. This operation is more commonly called spaying (female) and neutering (male). Veterinarians rarely...
View ArticleDoes neutering male cats make them less strong?
I have concluded that neutering male cats is likely to make them less strong. The word “neutering” applies to male cats, as you probably know, although it can also be an umbrella term for spaying and...
View ArticleSpaying and neutering versus declawing in domestic cats
There are some people who say that there is little difference between declawing domestic cats and spaying and neutering them. They are both modifications of the domestic cat. It is people taking the...
View ArticleI prefer the unneutered male cat appearance
Is there anyone else who prefers the unneutered male cat appearance, as I do? I’m only referring to one aspect of the appearance of unneutered male cats: the head shape. It would be interesting to know...
View ArticleAre you confused about the optimal age to neuter your cat?
In this article “neutering” means sterilising either a male or female cat. I don’t know about you but after researching whether early neutering is safe and preferable I have come away slightly...
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