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I thought i'd post this, after the feral cat thread was on. After all it is something I truely honestly believe in. HAVE YOUR CAT NEUTERED. Only get your cats and Kittens from Rehoming centres! By buying a kitten from the freeads or down the road, will not help the countries overpopulation of cats! The people who sell the cats will just think 'Oh this works, i'll breed some more' When a cat comes from a rehoming centre, it is blood tested, wormed, deflead and homechecked before you take it home. By not having you cat neutered, you are just adding to problems of diseases such as FIV (Similar to HIV), and many other lethel illnesses. Also you cat is more likely to roam, and will get lost, or run over etc. Her some stats about 2 uneutered cats. TWO UNCONTROLLED BREEDING CATS* ... plus all their kittens ... and all their kittens' kittens' kittens (if none are ever neutered or spayed) WILL ADD UP TO: Year One: 12 Cats Year Two: 66 Cats Year Three: 382 Cats Year Four: 2,201 Cats Year Five: 12,680 Cats Year Six: 73,041 Cats Year Seven: 420,715 Cats Year Eight: 2,423,316 Cats Year Nine: 13,958,290 Cats Year Ten: 80,399,780 Cats Population Figures in this table are based on: • an average of 2 litters of kittens per year; • an average of 2.8 surviving kittens per litter; • an average 10-year breeding life. 80,399,780 Cats in just 10 years! Please get you cats neutered!! Sorry if this annoys people, but it'll make my job easier, and a lot less upsetting at times!

Paul I agree with your sentiments about neuturing/speying cats. My 3 youngest came from friends litters and eldest from a local resident - Cats Protection would not allow me to rehome one - because I work !! I did not pay any money for any of mine - they just needed a good home and believe me they got one - more pandered to puddy cats you could not wish to meet - and they are all neutured/speyed and never roam other than their evening jaunt :O)

Quite agree. Just had my kitten neutered. Felt a bit bad putting her through it but she was up and about within a couple of hours like nothing had happened. Carol

lol Carol! I know what you mean! I go through that all the time at work! Especially when its a cat which youve become attached to, or a mum who's already had her kits! I often feel guilty!

Paul Both my cats are neutered, I agree its very important, we have so many feral cats here(spain) I belong to an organization here who catch and neuter ferals and then release them, we are lucky to get a vet who will do it for free, tghere are some kind people about.

I quite like Spains method of neutering feral cats. They clip the ear tip off dont they? Over here we make a slit in their ear, but its not always visible, and a lot of places dont do it, so its sometimes unclear whether they're neutered. But I think taking the tip off is much better.

WELL DONE FOR THE THREAD. As a person who loves cats, I seriously have the lives of cats in my mind. My first cat was given to me before it was drowned. My next 2 cats came from the rspca. There are so many cats born to people who dont care about having their adult cats nuetered. On top of this there are so many cats abandoned for one reason or another. PLEASE HAVE YOUR ADULT CATS NUETERED!! If you want a cat, please adopt one from the rspca or the cats protections league. So many unwanted cats need a loving and caring home. Thanks Fi x

Yes, Paul, they do, its like a little V just at the top of the ear, its so much better and easy to see which have been done, I have to say that you dont see as many these days thanks to the neutering projects, a few years ago you would see so many in groups and more often than not they had cat aids which is a terrible illness.

Well, I just got VERY confused about the facts of life after reading your last post Paul!! Actually, yes, it is something I passionately agree with too. But we are having a little discussion at home about our two tom kittens. The bigger one, the pick of the litter, seems to be a tom but over time whilst the little runt has developed two round little 'bobbles' near his bottom - I am really sorry to have to be so graphic! the pick is nowhere near as distinct. My horrid brothers have started calling him a ladyboy and I am a bit worried about how difficult it will be to neuter him. If they have to go fishing about for the 'bobbles' how likely is it that he will sustain damage to other essential bits. I might be getting a bit anxious over nothing, my experience only relates to humans, but after having nine cats neutered with no problems this is the first time that we have had a kitten that is anything less than straightforward! Abigail

As a cat lover I totally agree. Cat aids is a horrible disease, my cat caught it and went rapidly downhill, couldnt eat, drink and was totally listless. I had him put to sleep on Christmas eve, it was hard on the kids, but kinder for the cat. My other cat has been spayed as she was dumped in a binliner and I didnt know how she'd been treated before. Wouldnt dream of breeding from her.

lol! I'm sure the Vet will work out what is going on, he may just be a slow developer. Its not impossible for a cat to have both, and if thats the case you can usually on neuter one of its sexes, and that will be the active sex. But I doubt this is the case! I think my cat is actually gay! He holds his paw limp and has a whossy meow. But he's lovely, we call him a whossa pussa!

Becky, you did the right thing, cat aids is so easily passed on just a scratch on another cat and they have the virus, to anyone whos concerned cat aids is not the same as human aids, cats can not pass it on to humans,its also a very painful illness for the cat, you did the right thing Becky, however hard it was.xx

Oh yeah before someone moans - I think its different with Pedigree cats, they're blood tested, and health checked before they are bred with. They wont be allowed outside usually and so cannot add to the feral population!

If Cat aids was passable on to humans, i'm sure i'd have it by now!

Me too Paul!!lol we adoted a cat from a sanctuary here, he was gorgeous a big ginger ball of fluff, he developed a sore on his nose and was generally unwell, we took him to the vet, and yes he had aids. I was devastated, we already had 2 cats that were healthy we couldent take the risk, we had to take him back , but we made sure we found him a home with a lady who had another cat who had the virus, (they are both indoor cats ,so there was no risk of passing it on,) so it was a happy ending, untill they get too ill of course, you dont let animals suffer when they get too ill to enjoy life.

I know I did the right thing by Spike, but digging a hole in the garden on Christmas eve was not my idea of fun. The vet said he'd been fighting, it took 3 days from the scratch to him being put to sleep. I planted a butterfly bush on top of him - it seemed fitting! lol

We do that at work. Most of the time though unfortuantly we PTS a cat which is FIV+, but only if the cat is used to the outdoors, we find it cruel to keep a cat indoors if it used to being outside. If the cats has always been an indoor cat and is FIV+, we'll keep it alive and only home it as a single, or with another cat which is FIV+. What people need to remember is that FIV itself is not the killer. Its when the cat gets an infection or illness it becomes lethal.

Both my cats are indoor cats and are happy and healthy, they have the run of the houselol we do however take them out twice aday just for a change but their supervised! believe it or not, they know the bounderies and stick to them, we have actually trained them to be this way, you can train cats if you have the patience.

exactly - if you have the patience! lol!