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You'll have to name him Mr Piddle, Smudgley!!!  |
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awwwh I think hes really handsome I've never had an entire male cat before - but there have been times I've been tempted to take some of the tom cats that spray on my door and sometimes in my house to the vet to get the operation - I've never done it though just tempted - it takes forever to get rid of the smell  |
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When Ferdy came to us and I let him in a couple of times, he sprayed like mad. AND it stank! When we had him neutered, as Smudgely says, the smell diminished over quite a short period of time and the spraying stopped immediately. As to the original question of why keep en entire male? Well apart from genuine reasons of breeding I really don't understand why! They wander, they fight, they get/spread disease, they spray, they smell and they can be aggresive also. I know not all are, but most will display one or other of those characteristics. And of course they cause the ongoing problem of unwanted kittens  |
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I don't know why anyone would keep an entire cat, male or female, unless they plan to breed. I knew people when I lived in America who didn't want to spay their kitty or her son... Can't imagine how they've kept them from breeding, suspect they haven't really... Which is disturbing enough! |
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I have no idea - I have had unneutered toms with fostering, and while they didn't spray, the smell in the room of their wee was bad enough - although neither of the two youngsters (6 and 8 months) smelt. And with unneutered females, I dont' know how anyone can cope with dealing with them in heat time after time. IT must be easier with breeding queens. |
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Possibly because they're anthropomorphing their cat into a small human. They think that neutering is taking away the pets "right" to a love-life and since they have a good one themselves, or wish they did, they can't bring themselves to neuter. Or the same for a person fearing the loss of their "manhood"/ "womanhood" by loosing the means to reproduce. Personally, having the urge but never being allowed to do something about it would do my head in. Which may even be one of the reasons I would neuter my pets. The cats themselves don't seem to feel this way. A neutered cat tends to have less stresses and a "happier" life, as far as I can tell. But then I'm biased.  |
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I can't understand it eoither, if a cats a pet....My boys were all neutered as soon as they were old enough, its not just the spraying, unneuters roam and get into fights... |
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Because keeping just part of a cat is really cruel? |
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That made me laugh!! I would just like to say i had mine all neutured at 6 months. |
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