In a perfect world they would all keep their bits, but this world is far from perfect and kittens ending up in on death row at animal control is a horrible reality. Everything Anne Fuqua says is truth. I took in my mom's cat as a foster till she could get her life on track, she asked me not to neuter him so I didn't (for 1 year), he fought all the time, smelled like p**s, got horrible abscesses from the fights-no one wanted to touch him. After a year I had him neutered and told my mom he was officially adopted...no more smelly tom cat, no more fights, no more wandering, no more feral kittens courtesy of him. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs, seriously it is the lesser of two evils.

Taking responsibility for your pets as you would human children would do the same. End of.

My very first cat - Rusty - was a stray I found when he was about 3 months old. I wasn't financially stable, so while I did get him his shots & a flea treatment, I put off getting him "fixed" at the time. Things were fine for over a year, until I moved from my bsmnt studio to a main floor apt with more options for him to get out, The first week, he ran out btwn my legs when I opened the door & was gone 2 days - returning dirty, full of fleas, and had clearly been in a fight. I still didn't get it, though, until I came home to the hole he forced in a screen & no cat. 4 days later he returned, with an infected sore on his eye (from the screen), many other fight signs, a crapload of fleas, and a good pound lighter. The new vet bill was over $300, in 1982/83, including treating the infection, fleas, & the spay. That's the last time I tried to "save" money by waiting to fix a cat!!

Although most are health benefits, neutering also has downsides. Males are a lot less prone to urinal tract problems when they are in "natural" state. I'm not sure if this has to do with their spraying behaviour or not.

SIGHS, you know she means the cat's reaction, NOT the concept itself.

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Really? I suppose you find female genital mutilation funny as well.