Anti-spay and neuter comment “How about if we don’t try to force our opinions...
This is the response by a person who commented on a Facebook thread where an animal advocate asked people to please spay and neuter their pets. The comment below first made me think this person is...
View ArticleAre intact cats better hunters?
This is a follow up to Elisa’s article about a man who kept his cats intact (i.e. not neutered or spayed) because he believed that they were better hunters. He is employing his cats as working cats...
View ArticleAn unusual photograph of sterilized cats from Lumpini Park, Bangkok, Thailand
I was browsing the Internet and this photograph caught my eye. My initial thought was that the cats had been killed. This is what it looked like at first glance but then I noticed the tincture of...
View ArticleOne fifth of US cat owners deliberately let their female cat become pregnant
Twenty percent (20% – one fifth) of cat owners let their female cat become pregnant and have a litter of kittens before being spayed. On average these cats gave birth to 2.43 litters of 4.3 kittens. It...
View ArticleCanada Is Reducing Cat Overpopulation the Humane Way
An updating report to one carried out five years ago by the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies tells us that progress has been made in reducing the number of unwanted cats in the country but more...
View ArticleWhat percentage of cats in the UK are neutered?
In 2012, 86% of cats were spayed and neutered in the UK (RSPCA). In 2017, 90% of cats were spayed and neutered (PDSA). For a stable cat population there needs to be a 92% neutering and spaying rate....
View ArticleWould Obligatory Sterilization of Domestic Cats Lead to Their Extinction?
It is an interesting thought. The authorities at various levels in several countries including at national level are considering introducing mandatory sterilization of domestic cats and linking it to...
View ArticleCouple do DIY cat neuter and are charged
Green Bay, Wis, USA: A woman who failed to complete veterinary school and her fiancé’s brother performed a DIY neuter operation (male cat desexing) on the man’s cat. It went wrong because an infection...
View ArticleCat: “Where r my balls?” Text video
Have you seen this? It’s clever; making a video out of text messages on Facebook. It raises that philosophical question about a male cat’s balls 🙂 In the video a male, neutered cat discusses his...
View Article“Neuterathon” in Upstate SC puts approximately 243 animals out of the...
On Friday, Animal Allies held a neuterathon at their Spartanburg, South Carolina clinic where approximately 243 animals were put out of the production business. This was accomplished by a joint effort...
View ArticleDIY cat neutering by neighbour is a crime if proved
You have to wonder why this 30-year-old man from Eden, North Carolina, USA, allegedly decided to take it upon himself to neuter his neighbour’s cat. We are told that he offered to neuter the cat even...
View ArticleNear 100% spaying and neutering of domestic cats would put back cat...
Introduction: the spaying and neutering of cats is a good thing for obvious reasons. This article is not against spaying and neutering it is simply discussing what might be an unexpected outcome if...
View ArticleDoes feral cat ear-tipping need clearer guidelines and higher standards?
While browsing the internet I noticed this photograph by Nancy Simmons of an ear-tipped cat. I’ll guess and say that you thought the same as me: too much of the ear was amputated. At least it is the...
View ArticleThis 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...
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