Does your male cat urinate everywhere? Is he fighting with other cats? Is he howling at night and coming home with sores and mangled ears? Most likely he is not neutered, right?
Initially, you may have been spared the so-called indignity of having your “fun” surgically removed, due to some seriously misguided opinions, but even cat owners reach the end of their own ropes when their prized kitty begins to smell the water. . house. They pee everywhere, and there’s nothing stronger than untouched cat urine. It’s so strong you’ll think your eyes are bleeding and you’ll wish your lungs would shut down.
So what do these owners do? Most of them just throw the funny kitty-turned-stinky-monster out in the open, where he can find some fun in his own time from now on.
Others, who still want their sweetie to live indoors, finally break down and agree to castrate him. They also usually have their claws removed at the same time, since he has been scratching the furniture all the way to the frame. But they have waited too long.
They don’t get it either.
These cat owners have a whole list of wrong notions about her cat, and cats in general, like…
- Your cat will not be like that, because they will simply love it more.
- Neutralizing it is supposed to make it calm down and stop being aggressive.
- Neutering will instantly stop him from peeing on everything, scratching everything and starting fights.
- He’s just being stubborn.
Many people simply shouldn’t have cats, no matter how much they claim to love them. It is true that there are not enough houses for everyone, but then why should we put cats in a house that is not going to be a good location? Is it really fair to make them suffer with clueless people who just don’t get it? Or reject you?
First, it is a mistake to believe that simply neutering a cat will stop it from spraying the house. Fact: Once they have started this behavior, it might take Mohammed to move the mountain for them to stop. Castration, to be most effective, should be done before the cat reaches puberty, preferably even before. With current advances in surgical techniques and equipment, it can be performed safely as early as 8 weeks of age. But check with your own vet, as this should be done by someone who is also comfortable and familiar with the procedure.
Since spraying is often a marking behavior, and the cat doesn’t just eliminate urine, waiting for puberty just allows instinct to take over. Stopping something Mother Nature put there is a lot harder than stopping it from developing in the first place. What is this instinct? Well, what is puberty? Also called sexual maturity. This is the age when mating behaviors begin, and spray marking is one of them.
Neutering can then soften the development of aggression, another necessary trait as part of the entire mating process. Aggressive male cats are more successful in winning a mate. But you don’t want an aggressive cat, do you? Well, then neuter him before those hormones feed that instinct. At the latest, neuter it before 6 months.
Neutering (before it’s too late) goes a long way to “tame” that cat.