I WISH WE COULD CHANGE MORE TO HELP OUR CATS!

After reading your comments on how (actually it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s done humanely & safely) female/male kittens MUST be spayed/neuter

before they’re 6 months old (average age to procreate (reproduce)that’s a major reason for such large number of cats becoming feral, also when a cat is spayed/neuter health benefits are many such as males don’t roam, spray not fight; females are not apt to get ovarian/breast cancer, gaining weight is simply us feeding them TOO much food. Cats live a longer/healthier life. The main & most important benefit is no more kittens to multiply & multiply, lets remember this

A female & male cats will reproduce VERY quickly with those kittens either being euthanized, killed by cars, disease or humans.

Feral cats problem is ours, we must be responsible for out furry friends, there’s no reason/excuse not to.

keenpetite

Hi Christini, I think they have changed the way they do the girls here in the UK, as my older cat is just as you say with a saggy belly and now a heart condition, but the 2 younger ones dont have this and I was told that they do more like keyhole surgery.I feel much the same as you about vets they just charge the earth. When I saw on a site that dry food is no good for them I looked on food pouches for ingredients but there are none and the money that is made well !! Valerie

The trouble is there are so many cats,that vets maybe think they aren’t worthy of intricate operations rather than simply whipping out their sexual organs.So their future lives aren’t as valued as humans are.

There’s too many humans too of course but they have their rights,animals only have us to fight for their rights and there’s never enough of us.

There is probably scientists in labs right now experimenting on thousands of cats trying to make them be born clawless and sterile.

Frightening thought!

I’d think cats are castrated or spayed in the way that they are by the removal of their testicles or uterus and ovaries because those organs could cause future health problems if only tied off as humans organs are when they are sterilised.

Also it would be a more complicated operation taking time and expertise and we all know most vets like to make as much money as they can these days.

Maybe in the future when/if animal life is valued as much as human life is, more care and thought will go into their future physical welfare.

I hope so!

Hi Christina, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have never heard of your proposal before, which is why I find interesting.

Human males have the “snip”. A simple operation that prevents sperm from entering the semen (seminal fluid). Why are cats castrated (testicles removed)? Why can’t they have the snip too?

I don’t know the answer to that other than it would be a more expensive operation. Maybe it is not possible but a cat’s anatomy is very similar to human anatomy.

Female humans are also sterilized in a much less invasive way, it seems to me.

I think you have made a very good point.