Is it necessary to spay or neuter your cat? Weigh the pros and cons and make an informed choice

When it comes to cat de-sexing, there are many opinions on the internet, and those who say that de-sexing is good for the cat’s health and longevity, and those who say that de-sexing is inhumane as it deprives cats of the right to procreate, so how do the majority of shoveling officers choose?

Let’s start with why cats go into heat

Cats through innate habits, passed down from generation to generation, in order to reproduce offspring, whenever to the spring and fall, I believe we can hear the ghosts outside the window of the call of heat, and the cat’s heat cycle is about a week or so, if you can’t mate can maintain a month of heat, the male cat mostly smells the smell of female cats in heat before they will go into heat. This is the natural law of the species and will not change just because he is a pet.

Why wouldn’t a pooper scooper want to spay or neuter a cat?

1. In fact, here is because the pooper scooper is too attached to the cat, with the human thought for the cat, the cat in heat mating, is entirely the possibility of reproduction of offspring, and will not bring pleasure, the cat in not in heat, will not be copulation
2. In terms of bullshit, the least a person can do when they have a craving is to use their hands, cats in heat can be tough if they can’t find a significant other right away and have hormones in their bodies at a constant level of hyperactivity
3. Cat mating is painful because the male cat’s genitals are full of barbs, as is his tongue, and it can look brutal as he bites the female cat’s neck during mating.

Therefore, for the sake of emotions and cat health, if there is no need to breed, it is best to de-sex your cat as early as possible!

What are the disadvantages of an unneutered cat?

1. Felines in cats may, marking territory for attention while in heat, urinate around the house
2. Prolonged genital congestion that goes unresolved can cause urinary tract infections and secretion disorders
3. Cats in heat will be cranky, not eating, channel scratching the couch, etc.
4. If the cat smells or hears the cries of feral cats in heat outside, it is likely to take advantage of the risk of running away while you are not paying attention, and it is very difficult for the cat to go home at this time!
5. The most unbearable thing is the howling in the middle of the night, the sound can scare you all over.

Benefits of sterilization

First of all, the disadvantages mentioned above will be gone, and there are also benefits such as a gentler character, which will be more clingy than before, and due to the change in hormone levels, the neutered cat will be 1-2 pounds fatter than when it is not neutered, and it will be easier to develop gills.

When do you spay or neuter?

Try to de-sex the cat before the first heat, male cats can be de-sexed at 8 months and female cats at about 6 months, without experiencing the heat period, the cat will not have the memory of the heat, and some cats still have some manifestations of the heat after de-sexed, just because they have retained the memory of the heat.

Is spaying and neutering expensive?

The price is divided into male and female cats and cat health to set, generally male cats not more than 500 yuan, female cats about 1500 yuan

What about post-operative care?

After de-sexing surgery, cats do not need too much care, wear a good Elizabethan collar to prevent cats from licking wounds, as cats can not lick the hair, to often help the cat combing, generally male cats can heal in a week, female cats will be a little slow

Shovelers must be rational when raising cats, do not listen to people on the Internet, combined with their own environment and experience to decide whether or not to neuter, to give the cat a healthy body!