Do I really need to neuter my kitten in a couple months?

Question

Hes a house cat and always will be. His personally is just great, I wouldnt change it in a bazillion years.

Here is his photo: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/193/1873/640/100_3299.jpg

Answer 1

YES, ABSOLUTELY.

Let me tell you why...

1. Even though you intend to keep him indoors, he will get out eventually. It only takes a few seconds for him to find a female and make babies.

2. Spraying. Most males will start peeing all over the house to 'mark their territory'. Cat pee is the most awful smell in the world and you can never really get it out of anything. You can scrub and scrub and it will never go away. You don't want that.

3. Neutered males are much healthier and live longer than those that aren't fixed.

4.It won't change his personality. I had the coolest cat ever. His name was Freak. He was a freak. I was afraid he would start being more 'normal' when I got him fixed- but he stayed the same weird cat he was before the surgery.

PLEASE get him fixed. I am a volunteer with my local Humane Society and I see so many animals that have to be put down because they can't find homes and they get sick, physically and mentally in shelters and must be put down. It's terrible. Please do your part to control the pet overpopulation problem.

Get your buddy snipped!

Answer 2

Kittens grow into cats. And male cats have a tendency to spray when they get a bit older. (Mark their territory with urine.) It is an instinctive thing and they will not know that they are doing something bad. Also, when he gets a little older he will instinctively look for a lady friend (hense the spraying). Unless he is a papered cat that you intend to breed it is best for him and your furniture to have him neutered at about 6 months old.

His personality will change as he gets older anyway. If you have him neutered at 6 months he will still keep some of his kitten personality.

Answer 3

If he's the only animal in the house, he may not spray. But there is no way to be sure he won't spray everything in the house. They tend to do it as a territory marking thing. If there are other cats, he almost certainly will.

My wife and I have a couple of cats, one of which was a male kitten that started spraying stuff. It was either buy UrineGone by the barrel or get him fixed.

We got him fixed and he stopped spraying.

Answer 4

His personality will change if you DON'T get him neutered!

As he matures he'll become aggressive and ornery, a result of the testosterone in his system and his frustration at being unable to mate. He'll also probably start spraying, which you won't like at all.

Trust me, there are few critters as ornery and difficult to be around as an unaltered adolescent or young adult tomcat! It's sort of like living with a rabid wolverine.

Your kitty's personality will change a lot less if you DO neuter him, and you'll be doing both of you a favor.

Neutering will pretty much eliminate the aggressiveness by eliminating the testosterone, it will completely eliminate the need to mate and the frustration of being unable to, and it will reduce his compulsion to spray (maybe not completely, but considerably, and maybe completely.)

Answer 5

Yes, you really should have him neutered. He will start spraying and that is something that you really don't want.
I adopted a kitten 3 weeks ago tomorrow and he will be getting neutered around the last week of Sept/First week of October.

It will keep him healthier also.

My mother swears that if a neutered cat does get out that he will know to stay around your house. I do not know if this is true or not. But just that is a life saver in itself when and if he does get out.

By the way, your little kitten is precious!

Answer 6

Yeah, just because he is a house cat and cannot get out to mate does not mean that he cannot still develop all the testosterone to do so. Plus unentered cats will put out a discharge that smells like urine. They mark their territory aka your sofa. Plus neutering your male before a certain age will cut down his chance of developing testicular cancer.

Answer 7

Altering male cats is done by total castration or removal of the testes, leaving the scrotum. He will lose the instinct to mate and will not be able to impregnate female cats. It is not practical to have a vasectomy performed on a male cat. He will still produce hormones which can lead to illnesses and behavioral problems. If a male cat is altered before he develops the nasty and smelly habit of spraying to mark his territory, he will most likely never spray. Unaltered cats are territorial and altering will prevent many costly trips to the vet to treat wonds and infections from cat fights, as well as dramatically reduce the possibility of contracting FIV through fighting. As with females, unaltered males are in the high risk group for developing infections and cancers - particularly testicular and prostate cancers - in later years.

Answer 8

The picture is adorable. First when you neuter a male cat his personality does not change. I have my male kittie Mr. Rumbles. He is a sweetie and we is part time in our house. The main reason we had him spayed was so a)when we let him out he wouldnt accidentally get another cat with kittens and b)so we wouldnt have a cat who sprays our furniture...trust me that stinks nad is the devil to get out of furniture.

Answer 9

Its a good idea to get him neutered even if you keep him indoors. Cats that aren't neutered tend to spray urine around the house and they try to escape the house if they smell a female in heat outside. They can smell a female through an open window and will become aggressive in order to get to her. Its their instinct.

Answer 10

I wouldn't suggest nuetering for at least a year to let his true personality develop.......There are a lot of animal rights activists
who are against spaying and nuetering from an abuse perspective because unlike we humans they can't give consent.
It's as if we are forcing it upon them. Spaying and nuetering is a
population control issue because an unspayed female can have several thousand kittens attributed to her. Female cats can reproduce every two months....they start ovulating two weeks after giving birth. SO it's totally up to you........but ask youself if he would be able to wonder outside on his own.