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Our cat is neutered and is more of an indoor than outdoor cat, but she hates using a litter tray and even after a general anaesthetic we still had to let her go out, supervised, she would have burst otherwise. Cats (and dogs) are much more sociable when they have been neutered. Ros

Hey RW, At work we make people sign a declaration that they will have the cat neutered. All adult cats are neutered before they leave the shelter, but obviously kittens we cant do that, so thats why we make them sign a contract. If they break it, we get it back! And we always find out!!

My guys all had the op as soon as they were old enough. We had them from the RSPCA cattery and it was something we verbally agreed to, as a condition of us adopting them. One of the girls would have made an excellent mother. However, she is nervy and and lashes out at her siblings if they tease her so she would not have enjoyed being persued by the local smelly tom. RW

Paul Charlie was like that, he couldn't sit down properly, when he had them removed he still used to sit in the same way for ages afterwards, now his bum does touch the floor when he sits, I forgot to mention, he is half feral and it took ages to get him into the basket, I had 2 fleeses on and he scratched me through both of them. Bev

I remember when I had my Cornish Rex, he had huge nuts! They were too big for his body bless him, he looked very odd without them, and had to have a few extra stitches!

I have done that, my cat is 'Charlie no nuts' mind you he didn't speak to me for days.... Bev

both my cats are rescued cats, The first one(the feral) we found on a wall beside her mother who had been killed by traffic. the second we got from a rescue centre, hes a pedigree cat and yes he was dumped, why? because the owners had to go back home, is that an excuse??? NO Way!

Well doneTC!! All my animals (cats and rabbits) hae had their op, the smell of un neutered tom has to be smelt to be beleived it is terrible!!! I love all my moggies and have acquired them over the years through inheritance, needing good homes and one of them just moved in one day!!. dont ever buy cats, there are thousands that need a good home, some may not be very friendly at first, (one of my adopted cats has been known to me since she was a few months old and it is only now that she is 10 that she has started to get friendly!!) but if you persevere it is always worth it. Something else I would add, now that it has started to get cold and the heating has come on, dont forget to keep using the flea treatment, I seem to get more outbreaks in the winter than the summer!

Hello Paul, what a brilliant thread. Unfortunately it's all too topical, and still a lot of people choose to ignore it (not on here, I hasten to add!). All of our cats have had their ops, males and females. All too often I hear the excuse from people 'I can't afford to have mine neutered/spayed'. No, sure they can't - they can still afford their numerous packets of fags every week though! AND their nightly jaunts to the pubs. AND new DVD's, etc. These days, with all the organisations about, there's no excuse whatsoever; if anyone has financial problems re these operations, there's help available from these places (reduced rates, even free sometimes). Getting down off me high horse now, lol. Again, well done you for putting this thread up. x

Purple! lol We've recently caught loads from the Norfolk coast! Didn't happen to be Searles did it?

Derek, I agree, we have found it does make people more aware,the Spanish seem to take their pet ownership in a more responsible manner these days. well done to your wife, she must be a lovely careing lady. Roxanne

Shortly after we moved to our house in Spain my wife organised a mass neutering as there were so many underfed cats wandering about. The vet came and carried out the procedure in our kitchen with my wife assisting. The villagers rounded up the cats and even brought their own pets in to be 'done'. In all, nearly 40 cats were operated on. Four years on, the cats are still there but not in uncontrolable numbers. I think another benefit was that it made the villagers a little more aware of their responsibilities towards their pets and village animals. Derek.

There were a lot of feral cats at the Norfolk coast where I stayed recently and most of them had been caught and spayed, and the tip of one ear snipped off. I have always had my cats spayed/neutered and would do when I get some more.

There's a cat at work i'm absolutly in love with! Her name's reggie, and she's a bit 'in the head' but she lovely! her owner and his 2 dogs were killed in a house fire. She's agrophobic, pee's on the floor unless she's caged up at night, and can be very moody, but I absolutly love her!!!

I'm amazed no one has mentioned the revolting smell of an unneutered tom. 'Undone' Toms cause havoc around the neighbourhood they live in. A new tom has just moved in round here so everything reeks of widdle and all the local cats are getting scratches and bitten by him. I know of two cats that have had bites turn to abscesses and I've seen him chase more than one cat across the road through traffic. Get 'em off! Jelly

i agree! both my cats have been done, one is 10,he's a tom, the other is female aged 4, they were done at 6 months old. the older one was given to me aged 6 weeks, the other came from a rescue centre aged 8 weeks, her mother and siblings were rescued from a house fire. chris.

My Lilly is an indoor cat. I got her from Rspca, . She was cared for before there stating she was outdoors in summer but indoors in winter. I have kept her indoors since getting her. She appears fine, i even heard her playing with her toys whilst i was in the bathroom today. Love her to bits Fi x

exactly - if you have the patience! lol!

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.

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.