cat neutering procedure? alternatives?

Question

I want my male cats to stop producing kittens but I do not want to get his testicles removed! Looks and sounds cruel!
Any alternative? Like a cat vasectomy? If we can do it to humans... cats should be easier!
He is a show cat and he produces the most beautiful kittens, but also a bad smelling pee and I am tired to deal with it, he never marked or spayed but is pee smell in his litter box is horrible, he has the purrforma and I tried to toilet - train him ( no luck)
Thank you!!!
Please serious answers!!

Answer 1

a vasectomy i dont knwo if it works with cats or not, but they Can grow back and have more kittens. and a normal neuter doesnt hurt them in the least, the most it is is they're sore for a few days, and the boys haev a Lot easier time of it then girls.. and with humans to vasectomy doesnt always work.. it grows back a friend of mine has 2 kids after he had a vasectomy. and also a vasectomy wont take care of spraying, the hormons are majiorly partly from his testicales, and even then its not a garantee that he'll not spray... but also doing a full neuter will help with any cancer that he could have... prostate cancer is in cats as well as dogs and humans and does kill. a vasectomy doesnt get ride or reduce the risk of that

Answer 2

I have never heard of any other method other than removing the testicles/neutering. It would be no different then a vasectomy since the cat would be put under anesthetic either way. Trust me I have seen cats being neutered at the vet when I worked there, it is a very quick procedure they remove the testicles and put a couple stitches in and voila all done. We just had our male neutered a week ago, I dropped him off in the morning and picked him up that afternoon he was wide awake, purring his little head off all the way home and got home and was just as active as always. He honestly may just have bad smelling pee, my male max stinks up the bathroom when he poops it is seriously the sickest smelling stuff...some animals are just smellier than others. I have only ever noticed a bad male urine smell when they spray so that's why I think he may just be a stinky guy peeing. Also humans and cats sexuality is totally different, cats have sex to reproduce, humans do it for a lot of reasons so if they removed a humans testicles that male would be a eunuch and have no interest in sex at all...cats are not the same as human males.

Answer 3

It's not cruel, and there'll be the same amount of pain (temporary, it's surgery after all) either way.

If you want the 'look', there's the nuticles, which the vet can put in, they're soft fake testicles to make it look like the cat or dog is whole yet.

Really, the only problem is usually with the owner who project human thinking on the whole proceedure. A neutered cat won't produce kittens, and the operation is safe, quick and works. It's not cruel.

Answer 4

I work with a humane society and we spay and neuter every week. Neutering is very quick procedure and cats recover from it very fast. There are no real alternatives because neutering is quite simple. It takes about 15 minutes to do and any good vet can do it with one hand tied behind his back and blindfolded. Pain is minimal - the cats are up and around and usually back to normal behavior ina day or two. My neighbor had her 5-month old kitten neutered last week and he was happy and playing with us when we saw him the next day.

I would have a vet check into the smelly pee issue though - strong odor could be just tom cat smell (which neutering will take care of) but it can also be a sign of kidney disease.

Answer 5

Neutering is actually a very simple procedure, not unlike a vasectomy. They just make a tiny incision, pop the testicles out, and surgical glue it back together. The incision is only about an inch long, and there is virtually no pain after the first day. Some vets even use a laser now to perform the procedure!

Answer 6

Talk to your vet about your concerns. Newer procedures can leave your cat looking cosmetically intact. As for a feline vasectomy, such a procedure might actually be more complicated/invasive, for a cat. As indicated by others here, this is a very quick procedure which should cause your boy minimal distress. As for after effects I have had MANY neutered males. They were still quite masculine, active, healthy cats. There was no down side.

Answer 7

Neutering is not cruel. It is a very simple procedure, and really the only option if you want your male cats to stop reproducing. Neutered males are happy and healthy, with wonderful mellow personalities. You'll get used to how their private parts look, smaller but not gone, and it's a minor operation they recover very quickly from. I'm sure your pee problem will be solved once they are no longer toms.

Answer 8

It takes then less than five minutes to neuter a cat, and in all my years as a vet tech never heard of a cat vasectomy, but with the the smelly urine is due to the fact that he's still intact, males cats that are neutered don't have that distinguish urine smell that intact males have.

Answer 9

Neutering isn't cruel at all. It'll greatly lower his chances of getting reproductive cancers and feline urological syndrome, among other maladies. It doesn't hurt the cat at all; in fact, he'll likely freak you out by acting "too frisky" and running around the house when he gets home. The worst part of the whole neutering procedure is your cat will come home with his butt shaved.

If you still want an alternative, here's one: when I was a kid, my dad (who was raised on a farm and had neutered steers) decided he didn't want to pay five bucks to get our Siamese cat, Sam, neutered. Sam had been spraying in the house and escaping and disappearing for days on end ... so my dad decided to neuter Sam himself, similar to how steers are neutered on a ranch, only with a rubber band instead of a wire. My dad wound a rubber band tightly around his right thumb and index finger, then he grabbed Sam and hung him upside down by the hind legs and stretched that rubber band over Sam's testicles and let go. Sam went nuts and was in obvious agony. A week or so later, my sister found Sam's testicles, dried up and with the rubber band still on them, in the dirt under a tree in our back yard, where they had dried up and fallen off.

Still got a problem with a vet neutering your cat?

Answer 10

Yes, there are implants for the removed testicles. The surgery has to be done at the same time, but check out the link below.