Castrating five year old cat

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Mark & Ana Jones - 13 Mar 2005 12:40 GMT

My Tom cat with (the bad breath) is still intact as my foreign wife didn't
want me doing the usual British practice of neutering/spaying when he was a
kitten.

Naturally he roams away from home for weeks and returns looking well fed but
ungroomed when he chooses. As I've got to catch him and get him to the vets
soon for his other condition I was considering having him castrated but:-
(1) will he still roam as the habit is now imprinted in him? (2) will he
become more domesticated and stay at home more? (3) is this option too cruel
as I've left it so late?

TIA

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Mark Jones
Surrey, UK
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Starlord - 13 Mar 2005 18:13 GMT

Have it done, while he still might roam, he'll be less likly to get into
fights over females and will not add to the strays. Plus if you keep him
inside, he might become a much better cat too. (Safer too).

> My Tom cat with (the bad breath) is still intact as my foreign wife didn't
> want me doing the usual British practice of neutering/spaying when he was a
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> Surrey, UK
> Mobile 07799-192748

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Mark & Ana Jones - 13 Mar 2005 18:41 GMT

> Have it done, while he still might roam, he'll be less likly to get into
> fights over females and will not add to the strays. Plus if you keep him
> inside, he might become a much better cat too. (Safer too).

Thanks, easier said than done though. As far as I know he's not impregnated
a single fertile female in a two mile radius as every male/female cat in
this part of Surrey is usually neutered/spayed before sexual maturity.

In fact he only returned a few weeks ago to "jump" our one-year-old willing
female (that he hated when she was a kitten) and he was absolutely useless
at the job. He spent the whole day and night trying but was pumping above
her tail at her spine - I, as a red blooded rugby-playing male was very
embarrassed and ashamed of his pathetic performance. lol . (additionally
they would/could produce beautiful kittens given their own tiger/tabby
markings).

- as for keeping him inside - I live on a canal bank amongst fields in a
two-bedroomed terraced house and so he is not a "flat cat" and I don't want
a litter tray inside especially with three cats (plus kittens) and a new
born baby in the summer.

Any other ideas are of course welcome.

Mark.
Surrey, UK.

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wester@laway.net - 13 Mar 2005 19:29 GMT

>My Tom cat with (the bad breath) is still intact as my foreign wife didn't
>want me doing the usual British practice of neutering/spaying when he was a
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>TIA

1) No
2) Yes
3) No

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Bodie Doyle - 16 Mar 2005 00:45 GMT

My cat got his bits done at 13 years old so u aint got anything to woory about on that score and yes he will become more domesticated but will at odd times go wandering but will be back home quicker than now.

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