Male Castration(neutering)?

Question

I may soon be getting a new 7 week old stud and I'm worried about spraying. I know he wont spray untill he's reached sexual maturity. But when he does- will neutering completely eleminate any chances of spraying?

Answer 1

When a male cat starts spraying, it takes forever, even with chemical assistance, to get the smell out. It's equivalent to having a skunk run around your home, and spraying everything. It smells that bad! (From what I've read it's just urine, but I don't believe it!) The choice between spaying or neutering your animal is often proposed as the option between being a good owner or a bad owner, but in truth... If you want to be a bad owner with a female cat, you will have to endure meowing and rolling around... It's annoying, but endurable in the short-term. However, with a male cat, it's NOT endurable in the short-term... Even if he only sprays on something you own once, you'll instantly regret it.

At the time, I was a teenager when we had an unfixed male cat. Well, I had to throw my stuffed animals out, because I couldn't get the smell out with a bottle of Febreeze dumped on it. It was very frustrating, to say the least!

Getting the cat neutered stopped him from spraying... There were NO more instances of spraying after that. It was such a big freakin' relief too! When we got another male cat when I was older, I said there is no way we're waiting... I don't care if we don't have the money, I'll sell my own blood, but he has to get fixed!! ;) We never had any spraying problems with him, fortunately.

Okay, I looked up the statistics on neutered male cats and spraying. This is what I found:

"I think it is safe to say that MOST male cats will engage in urine spraying activity if they are not neutered. In addition, their urine seems to have a much more potent odor... I do not know the exact statistics on the percentage of male cats that spray if they aren't neutered, though. Interestingly, somewhere between 10 and 20% of male cats will spray even if they are neutered, so it isn't a "cure-all" for this condition... [However] Neutering is by far the most effective method of preventing spraying behavior."

In regards to when to do it, I would recommend waiting until 5-6 months of age. That's before a male cat would reach sexual maturity. Male cats reach sexual maturity at 9-12 months of age - fortunately male cats take longer to mature than females - please no cracks about how this is true for humans too...lol.

Even though veternarians will do it if you ask them to, I really would not recommend doing it before 4 months of age. Little kittens are at a higher risk of not waking up from the general anesthesia that is used in the procedure. Give him time for his little body to develop a healthier resistance to the drugs they'll inject him with.

Answer 2

I work with an animal rescue group and we recommend spaying/neutering dogs at six months of age. We have found that doing so any earlier can cause possible complications, such as incontinence, etc. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Cat Litter Boxes: Definitely male, because they're usually full of -----. Gotcha' Father!

Answer 4

I had a cat who was neutered. He whizzed all over the house. "Had" is the operative word in the first sentence.

Answer 5

spayed male dogs and cats makes better pets.
Not only it will stop the spraying, it will also make them less agressive, and there for better pets.

Answer 6

Yah spay him and he won't spray you (or talk to you for about a week after)!

Answer 7

get him spayed most likely he will spray, also try and do that to save animals getting killed . too many cats and kittens everyday die, so do that

Answer 8

no, will not stop the spraying

Answer 9

getting him fixed that early will help...!!! If he is an all indoor cat that will help too :-D


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Answer 10

you need to have it done by six months