Cat neutering myths

Several myths which restrain pet owners from the surgeries are the following:

• neutered pet loses its vitality and undergoes character changes. Actually, the surgery cannot change your pet’s character. Sometimes after the neutering pets may exhibit greater appetite, because they are no longer bothered by mating and fighting for their territory. If food is not limited, a cat or a dog can get obese. As a consequence, it may lose its vitality and playfulness. However, this can be avoided by limiting your pet’s food or applying special diets for neutered pets;


• neuterd pets experience stress due to their inability to reproduce. Fortunately, our human logics does not apply to our pets. After the surgery, sex hormones stop working and pets do not have the need to reproduce any longer. Consequently, the stress disappears as well. The greatest stress is experienced by intact and not bred animals, especially cats and dogs;


• female cats should be allowed to raise at least one litter. On the contrary, the best is to spay them before they have kittens or shortly after they give birth, because spaying after birth or at an older age leaves the risk of gynaecological and mammary gland diseases at the same high level as leaving the female cat intact.