Castration of cats and cats
If you are not fond of felinology and are not ready for professional breeding of cats with subsequent investment of significant funds in the health and maintenance of your producers, as well as in their offspring (which, before being transferred to their new owners, must be fed, maintained, treated and vaccinated at your home at your expense for three to four months), then this article is for you. Very often you have to hear the phrases "I'm sorry to deprive a cat of pleasure, and cats of the feeling of motherhood", "castration is cruel!", "sterilization: yes, it's a cavity operation, a mockery of an animal!".
But what will you do when your beloved fluffy marks all your (and not only your) things, and the cat tears up all the new furniture and wallpaper, marking its territory and screams for 7 days every month? I assure you, this test is not for the faint of heart. And what will you do with kittens that still manage to be born from a random partner or an incorrectly selected individual of the same breed? This is only a small part of the problems faced with which you will curse the day when you acquired this "terrible" creature.
Often, many people do not even think about how many problems a full-fledged, in a physiological sense, animal can bring in the future!
Below, for clarity, I give a table about the advantages of castration and sterilization of cats and cats not involved in breeding.
The link between obesity and castration is the most common myth. The animal will not gain weight as long as it is reasonably fed and conditions for movement are created.
| Cats and cats |
do not participate in breeding not neutered |
neutered |
| character | They can be angry and aggressive | Balanced, even character, affectionate |
| attachment | They show independence, are concerned about their problems | Devoted to the owner and all family members, begin to notice the joys of life |
| propensity to vagrancy | Tend to run away from home in search of a cat, jump out of the window | Do not seek to run away from home |
| smells | Mark the territory (furniture, bed, slippers) with urine, and sometimes with feces with an extremely unpleasant smell | Do not mark and do not have an unpleasant smell |
| screams | Cats often scream, calling the cat, both day and night, which often makes the owner's life unbearable. Cats scream at least three times a year for a week or two, day and night, being in a state of estrus. | Never shout |
| deprivation of pleasure | Cats do not have the concept of "sex", there is only the concept of "procreation". Cats experience acute pain upon contact. And they are also often severely injured by the claws and teeth of a partner. | Do not feel anguish from the lack of mating and offspring |
| hunting instinct | Depends on the individual nature of the cat | Saved completely |
| obesity /exhaustion | % of obese cats are the same as among neutered ones. If a non-neutered cat is deprived of the ability to knit, he may refuse to eat, become exhausted and even lose his fur | |
| health of the genitourinary system | Cats deprived of regular mating get disorders of the genitourinary system, prostate diseases and urolithiasis - the scourge of all cats from the age of 5. Cats deprived of regular mating get cancer and pyometra. | Prevention of urolithiasis and other genitourinary disorders. Cancer prevention and pyometers |
| infections | Are more susceptible to infection due to a tendency to vagrancy and contact with other animals | The risk is less |
| lifetime | Usually live less castrated, often die prematurely from urolithiasis or postpartum complications | 1.5-fold increase in life span |
If you are still firmly convinced that your animal is not in danger of castration, do you attribute your desires, your life priorities and ambitions to your pet?.. And don't you put them above common sense?
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