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WHY
NEUTER?
PREPARING FOR THE KINDEST CUT OF ALL
Cats Protection encourages
all cat owners to have their cat’s neutered/spayed. Quite simply
there are far too many cats and just not enough caring homes. It’s all
very well saying Oh! I always get good homes for my cats kittens,
if that is the case why are we always so full and have a huge list
of cats waiting to come in and where are all the tens of
thousands of cats/kittens that Cats Protection take in each
year coming from? Why are tens of thousands more put to sleep
each year? We appreciate that some come in because of the owners ill
health or a death in the family but the majority are simply not
now wanted and were once the kittens that friends and relations
swore to love and care for forever, of course we are just one rescue, there are possibly as many
again if not more being helped by other rescues. Please don’t be
led into thinking that if everyone had their cat neutered/spayed they
would die out, that is just not going to happen there are far too
many irresponsible people for that. If there were a few less
cats/kittens available would it be such a bad thing? Maybe just maybe
they would be more valued and as a result of this perhaps we would not
keep reading of the abuse and neglect so many suffer.
Occasionally we are told I don’t want my cat ‘done’ I want it to have
some fun, another word for fun is amusing, it is not very amusing when
your cat gets a life threatening disease just because you wanted your
cat to have some fun, is it?
RISKS
FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) & FeLV (
Feline Leukaimia) is rife; it
is passed on from cat to cat by contact, usually sexual or fighting.
Also remember when a female is in season she can come into contact with
a number of unneutered toms. Only one has to be infected to infect
her, her kittens and any tom that may come along after. Please don’t
put your cat at risk. It is
NOT
necessary for a cat to have a litter of kittens before it’s spayed,
indeed all Vets would agree that it is of no benefit to a cat at all.
It is just as important for
indoor
cats to be neutered/spayed as it helps to eradicate many forms of
cancer, e.g. Breast, Ovarian, Uterine and Testicular, also enlargement of the
prostate and related infections, female cats are also safer from
mammary tumours and will not get pyometria a life threatening disease,
both are more common than you may think. Very
recently one of our volunteers took a young female to be spayed
for a family who could not be bothered, fortunately for the little one
it saved its life as its womb was full of infection and would have
suffered greatly within the next couple of weeks and most certainly died.
Vouchers towards the cost of this simple little procedure are available
to anyone on a limited budget. Please ring Elaine on 01246 270056.
If you do not live in our area your nearest Branch or CP HQ www.cats.org.uk
MANY CATS LIVES HAVE BEEN
SAVED WHEN A VET NOTICED SOMETHING WRONG WITH A CAT THAT
WOULD HAVE REMAINED UNNOTICED UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE HAD THE CAT NOT GONE
FOR A NEUTER/SPAY.
*PLEASE
NOTE: FELINE FIV & FeLV CANNOT BE PASSED ON TO HUMANS OR ANY OTHER
SPECIES*
COLONIES
For colonies of 6 or more (farm or
garden cats) Cats Protection will pay most (if necessary) of the cost of
neutering/spaying and in some cases all the cost.. Remember apart from
the above risks if the cats have this simple procedure they will be able
to keep their minds on what they are supposed to be doing and not on the
opposite sex. Traps are available if required to assist you. Please ring
Elaine on 01246 270056 for details or if you do not live in our area
your nearest Branch or CP HQ www.cats.org.uk |
