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Love Your Cat? This Is Why You Need To Neuter Your Cat For Its Health

Neutering cat is seen as inhumane by some people. They think that it will prevent the cats from reproducing in the wild. In fact, this perception is humane as neutering the cats has many positive health and welfare outcomes to them.

For your information, spaying refers to the removal of a female cat’s reproductive organs. Castrating refers to the removal of a male cat’s reproductive organs. Meanwhile, the phrase ‘neutering’ is used to describe both procedures of reproductive organs removal. New knowledge for everyone, right?

In this article, we’ll go over the various reasons why you, as the responsible owner should consider having your cat neutered.

Neuter Your Cat: A Guide to Many Benefits

1. Cat’s health

Neutering a female cat before her first heat prevents uterine infections, breast cancer and uterine cancer. As for male cats, neutering male cats prevent prostate and testicular cancer. In fact, neutered cats live longer, healthier, and happier!

2. Neutering saves money

Neutering your pet can reduce long-term costs. Reproductive cancer treatment and cat litter care are expensive. Unneutered cats are more destructive and may fight neighbourhood strays, requiring costly treatment.

3. Neuter will result in a more well-behaved cat

Neutered cats behave better. They won’t roam, yowl, howl, bite, be aggressive, spray, or mark their territory. In addition, intact males will risk harm or conflicts with other males to obtain mates, including escaping from your home. Feline leukemia and feline immunodeficiency virus are other risks of roaming.

Moreover, cats’ moods improve after neutering. Neutering also reduces stress and makes pets happy. from neutering, you’ll stop bad habits without changing your pet’s nature.

So many good benefits right? Last but not least, if you want to neuter your cats, it’s safe to spay or neuter kittens as young as eight weeks old. Cats that are neutered before they are six months old are less likely to have behaviour or health problems than cats that are neutered later in life.

Interestingly, neutering cats when they are young may even stop them from developing bad habits. No matter how old a cat is, it’s never too late to spay or neuter it if it’s not fixed and is acting up.

Neutering my own cat

I, as a responsible cat owner also neuter my female cat, Lili. Meet Lili everyone!

This was Lili, days after neutered and was still recovering. Look at the stitches on her tummy!
This is Lili now! Fully recovered from her neuter procedure and become a healthy and more well-behaved cat

All in all, if you want your cat to be by your side for a long time, do neuter it to prevent it from suffering from diseases that can take its life. Neuter your cat everyone!

Sources: Very Important Pets, We Are All About Cats

Adib Mohd

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