The issue of contraception is particularly acute for owners of cats as some individuals in a week or two after the delivery, still bringing up kittens, are already ready to copulate and breed again. One of ways to temporarily stop techka are contraceptive pricks.
Ways of contraception for cats
Sterilization – surgery which is made to the first techka, it allows to save completely a cat and her owner from all those unpleasant manifestations of sexual desire for which these animals are famous. It is possible to refer total inability of a cat to shortcomings of this method to give birth after such operation was performed. But, undoubtedly, for her health it is meanwhile the safest and effective of the existing contraception methods.
Contraceptive tablets and pricks, hormonal means of strong action belong to the most popular ways which advantage as it is considered, the possibility of resumption of reproductive function at cats is. Tablets contain hormones which cause false pregnancy or just suppress sexual inclination at cats. Contraceptive pricks prevent a techka. In veterinary practice the hormonal medicine "Kovian" is most often used. Its first injection becomes under the leadership of the expert – the veterinarian, its action continues half a year then the owner of a cat can already independently medicine each half a year until there is a need to tie an animal. It is necessary to inject prior to the beginning of an estimated techka, trying to do not pass the first signs of its approach.
Signs of a techka at cats
The first techka at a cat can begin at the age of already 7-9 months. It passes, unlike dogs, externally almost imperceptibly and any you can not see allocations, but here the behavior of an animal during this period begins to change. It is good if business is limited only to the increased tenderness, frequent purring and constant desire to contact to family members. In most cases the cat begins to be nervous and to constantly let out loud cries, to move, having sat down on hinder legs and to behave with people as potential sexual partners. Therefore if you chose such method of contraception as contraceptive pricks, try to do them strictly according to the scheme – exactly in half a year or right after the first signs of a techka – change of behavior of an animal appear.
Choice of a way of contraception
But consider that use of hormonal medicines both in the form of tablets and drops, and in the form of injections, not always gives a 100% guarantee and is fraught with the most serious consequences for health of your house favourite, up to a piometra and oncology. Today only sterilization can save an animal from the problems caused by a reproduction instinct, make it more appeasable and reduce risk of developing of many diseases.