The instinct of reproduction is strong at pets as well as at those who live in nature and to control it an animal, unlike the person, cannot. Therefore if you are not going to be engaged in cultivation, buying a cat to the house, at once it is necessary to think also of her sterilization. For health of a cat especially important at what age she will be sterilized.
What it is necessary sterilization of cats forSterilization – intracavitary operation on removal of ovaries after which the cat forever loses an opportunity to have posterity. It would seem if the cat lives at home and does not go outside, this operation could and be not done. But it not so – each techka of an animal which happens time in 3-4 months will be followed by changes in her behavior. The cat can shout at night or even to begin to use your footwear and clothes instead of a habitual tray to declare the determination for pairing. She feels physical discomfort at this time and tries to eliminate it in all available ways.
Intake of the hormonal medicines preventing an ovulation at cats can provoke cystous and oncological diseases.
That sterilization is necessary already nobody argues, the question costs in when it is the best of all to do it as this violation of a hormonal background which, of course, has direct impact on a physical state and health of an animal.
At what age to sterilize a catIn the West there is a veterinary experience of sterilization of cats in the most "gentle" age – in 7-8 weeks, still before the kitten enters the puberty period. Operation which is performed at such early age allows to reduce the probability of complications and postoperative seams in this case heal quicker. But the sterilized cat does not manage to be created, reach physical and puberty yet before these irreversible hormonal changes were made. As development of genitals is interrupted, it affects functions of the hypothalamus defining behavioural reactions of an animal. Therefore the behavior of a cat can become unpredictable, and, besides, hormonal violations provoke failure and in physical development. Such animal can have the disproportionate building – too little head on excessively big body.
It is impossible to sterilize an animal during a techka – the risk of complications is too high.
If to make to a cat sterilization after first labor or at the age of 1.5 and more years, at an animal the risk of development of cancer of mammary glands increases. If after first labor such probability is 8%, after the second it increases already to 26%. When the cat already rather adult, sterilization does not have already any warning effect. Most of veterinarians incline to opinion that the most optimum term of sterilization of cats is the period to the first techka. In this case the risk of development of oncology of mammary glands is only 0.5%.