Your children brought to the house of a kitten? Or you regretted the poor creature who is becoming wet in the rain? Or perhaps just there was a wish to get a cat in the house? Anyway, you have a cat. Yet he small, is not present particular problems with an unpleasant pungent smell in the house. But in the head the thought concerning sterilization of the favourite already creeps in.
What cats should be castrated
The adult cat can mark the territory, and he does it by means of a secret which has very unpleasant persistent smell. If the cat cannot mark a bush, a house corner, a fence, designating borders of the possession for other individuals of the look, it will do it with your wall-paper, furniture, and sometimes and with clothes. There's nothing to be done, such they were created by the nature.If the cat constantly is in the apartment and has no opportunity to go outside, then it is worth thinking seriously of his sterilization to make your life of more comfortable, joint with it, for both. If the cat cries out at night, preventing to sleep, behaves aggressively and in addition to everything made a pool on a bed - it is too an occasion to facilitate to it life by castration. If you do not plan to look for to the favourite the girlfriend or to use him as the producer, then you should not torment an animal, it is better to castrate. There are cases when castration is necessary, for example, at a mechanical trauma or a malignant new growth.
Positive and negative sides of castration of a cat
If all of you decided to castrate a cat, any veterinarian will approve your decision. Only you should not hurry with sterilization. The urinogenital system of a little kitten is not created yet, and after castration its development will stop. It is the best of all to castrate a cat approximately after the 7th month of life. A sure sign of the fact that it is time to the veterinarian it is, what the cat began to mark. But if the cat consisted in intimacy with a cat, then after castration he can continue to mark the territory. At such cats the production of sex hormones is made not only testicles, and and a hypophysis which cannot be removed. The castrated cats, unlike ungelded, have practically no prostatitis, tumors of a prostate and other infections. The castrated cat becomes quieter and more tender. The sterilized cats become inclined to obesity therefore it is necessary to reconsider their food if the animal began to gain excess weight. Also such cats get into risk group on development of an urolithic disease. In their diet there has to be a lowered content of phosphorus, magnesium and calcium. That is, if you want the cat to live longer, you do not feed him with the fish. Most of veterinarians recommend to feed with the special industrial sterns created taking into account needs of the sterilized cats. Having weighed everything "pro" and "contra", you will be able to make the reasonable decision to castrate a cat or not, and to be responsible for consequences of such decision.