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Why Should You Consider Neutering Your Cats?
Well, population is no longer such an alarming issue in the feline society as it is in the human society. But still you can consider neutering your cat…be it male or female…for a number of reasons.
When you perform it on your Tom cat, the operation is called castration. When it is performed on your dear pussy it is called spaying.
There is no doubt you can get a number of advantages out of the process of neutering. All the advantages can be categorized in two broad groups: Behavioral advantages and Medical advantages
- As your cat--- male or female--- reaches puberty it acquires certain personality traits that are grossly undesired. As for example the tomcats develop a habit of spraying urine to mark the area of his dominance. Neutering will decrease this habit of spraying urine in castrated male cats or spayed female cats.
- The male cats can sense and respond to the pheromones--- chemical elements that are released from the body of the inviting female cats. The tom cats that are neutered as early as in the age of 6-9 months can not sense the pheromones and will not be bothered by the stray female cats outside.
- A castrated tom cat will also be less interested in extending its territory outside home and thus there are lesser possibility of his getting involved in street fighting with stray cats and incurring wounds or meet with road accidents.
- Now take the case of the female cats. The most important advantage of spaying your female cat is; you will get rid of unplanned litters.
- During the mating period, the female cats send ‘calls’ to prospective partners and during this time they become aggressive. Most commonly, the female cats during this time resort to sharp, persistent crying; they scratch the floor and make other noise. It also releases a typical scent to attract the male cats. A spayed cat will save you from these hazards and the loitering of stray tomcats near your home during the mating season.
- Then a spayed cat runs lesser risks of uterine infection and development of breast cancer as they grow older.
If you go for scientific breeding of your beloved pets, the world will be blessed with few more impeccable representatives of their species. In order to get the best result, you should take the help of professional breeders to have healthy off springs from your beloved pets. But if you have un-neutered cats around, you run the risk of getting young ones with genetic defects, deadly infections like FIV and FeLV, personality defects and so on.
Basic Facts about Neutering
Now that you are well aware of the many advantages of neutering your beloved cat, here are some facts to strengthen your conviction in favor of it.
- The ideal age for neutering cats is between 4 and 6 months of age. The modern veterinarians prefer even more early age when the kitten is just 6-14 weeks old.
- Neutering does not come into the way of your kitten’s normal growth.
- You will not be able to detect any significant difference in any physical, or behavioral traits of the cats neutered earlier than those neutered at a latter course of their lives.
- The cats neutered at an early age recover faster than those neutered a bit later.
- Overall, neutering is absolutely safe procedure if anesthetics and other surgical requirements are followed properly.