When over 6,000 kittens are destroyed each year can anyone justify breeding, many are abandoned or suffer when they go to unsuitable homes. Cats can start breeding at 5 months of age, it is a case of kittens having kittens.
Sterilised cats are healthier, live longer and are less of a nuisance to the community. It is a myth that female cats need a first litter, which is one of the reasons why the much loved cats belonging to animal welfare members never breed.
Uncontrolled cats mating at night is a major source of noise complaints to councils.
What are the benefits of having a female cat sterilised:
- eliminates the noisey calling for a male admirer, beware -cats continue to come into season until mated or sterilised.
- reduces the need to leave the home property which puts them in danger of cars, dogs and unfriendly people.
- reduces the risk of mammary cancer, imminodefiency virus (feline aids) and bites
- prevents the oversupply of kittens which is a major reason cats and kittens are abandoned,
What are the benefits of having a male cat sterilised.
Free range unsterilised male cats spraying their foul smelling urine on doors and cars to mark their territory is unfair neighbours.
The health of male cats driven to fight for mating territory are at at risk from abscess. leukemia and feline aids
Male cats wander far from home for weeks when female cats are in season, they may never find their way home.
