anesthetics / animal hospital / heart / heart defect / heart disease / hormones / testosterone
June 14, 2023
Sometimes male cats cannot be neutered. And it is entirely legitimate to leave them unsterilised and “whole”. This occurs when the cat cannot be put under a general anaesthetic. A veterinarian needs to put...
hormones / hormones / male cat appearance / Neutering cats / testosterone
May 4, 2023
This is a discussion about whether the neutering of male cats (castration) changes their facial appearance. It can also have an impact on their overall appearance indirectly i.e. lower metabolism leading to putting on...
Cat Behavior / changes in behavior / Declawing / mating / spaying / sterilising your cat
May 1, 2023
We are fooling ourselves if we believe we are forced to spay and neuter our cats for their benefit and ours and to solely keep down the domestic cat population. Spaying and neutering are...
January 29, 2023
The word “intact” nearly always concerns domestic cats. Both the neutering of males and spaying of females takes a piece of anatomy away from them. For the male cat the operation is the removal...
November 1, 2022
To answer the question, you have to break it down into categories which I’ve done. There’s a difference between the behaviour of the wildcat ancestor which is the same species as the domestic cat...
January 14, 2022
In a study by A.G. Searle, University College, London, entitled Gene frequencies in London’s cats, which was carried out in the summer of 1947, it was concluded that “There is a significant tendency for...
March 17, 2021
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...
February 6, 2021
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...
June 18, 2020
This anonymous guy had what he thought was one male cat named Oscar. Oscar was unneutered and pregnant. She gave birth to four kittens. A young male in the litter mated with Oscar (his...
June 9, 2020
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...
November 25, 2019
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...
March 27, 2019
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 great...
September 4, 2018
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...
June 12, 2018
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...
April 22, 2018
Neutering male cats does not stunt their growth. This is made clear in a number of reference works that I have access to including an online study published on a reliable website. Early-age neutering of male cats can produce longer legs in the cat.
