Yup, three boys are playing ball my way today. They're getting neutered. In so doing, they'll get to use their upper brain, and won't be slave to their caboose brain, if you get my drift. They will no longer be slaves to their hormones, without an ability to break free. They won't be raping female cats and teens (feline rape is quite common). They won't be running blindly in front of cars. They will rarely back up and spray around the hood. They most likely won't wake the neighborhood in angry loud fence top face offs and drag out cat fights. They won't be as likely to spread disease anymore.
Today I helped them break free of hormone slavery and aggression. I probably saved their lives.
I tell each male in the car on the way to the vet... "You're not gonna miss playing that ball game, buddy. You'll get a life now. You'll get outside interests. You'll read books and maybe even solve world problems."
The females don't need such pep talks. Some of the older females I swear run into the traps, once some of the other females get spayed, anxious for their turn.
Think of their lives----putting out litter after litter after litter, no choices about it either. They get run down from the constant reproduction. How would you like to raise 15 or more kids a summer, be pregnant in the heat of summer, have scroungy flea ridden beat up diseased males after you constantly, and also have to provide for the kittens, once born, and for yourself when bulging pregnant? That's why they run into those traps with relief!
Male cats get and spread feline aids at high rates by fighting. For some reason the virus is better transmitted through the deep bite wounds males inflict upon one another when fighting. FIV deaths are not pretty and this disease is preventable, containable.
Does your neighbor let their unfixed male free roam? Tell them he's going to die but in so doing, if he's fighting even fixed cats, maybe even your fixed cat, because of hormone slavery and aggression, he might spread Feline Aids around, if he gets it himself from fighting.
So, herein lies rightful blame. Fix your males, or you, with your unfixed male, are a disease vector and possibly liable, if your unfixed cat gets FIV and spreads it by fighting a neighbors well cared for and fixed kitties.Slophouse Colony big gray tabby tux long hair male. This guy has a URI.
Gray tux manx who roamed into the Millersburg Country colony a couple weeks ago. The teen is finding him a home, or maybe has already, but wanted him fixed prior to adoption.
Orange tabby tux the neighbor kids, from Millersburg Country Colony, got unfixed at a pet store.
I am a Cat Woman. My self-appointed mission in life is to save the feline world! To accomplish this mission, I get cats fixed. Perhaps my mission might be slightly delusional. This blog is a mishmash of wishful thinking, rants, experiences as I remember them and of course, cat stories and cat photos. I have a nonprofit now, to help keep the cats here cared for and to fix community cats. Happy Cat Club formed in 2015. Currently, we are on a mission to fix 10,000 cats.
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Great Post!
ReplyDeletewhat a tragadey-sp? yesterday.
Yes, so sudden her death. Guess it was liver cancer.
ReplyDeleteEven though I spayed though it does not stop the male cats from coming into my yard and singing the lets make kittens song to me.
ReplyDeleteThe male belongs to the neighbor across the street, who are stupid people that won't get their cats fixed. They run a charter boat, so they certainly have more than enough money to do so.