Also, if female cats continually go into heat but not bred they can develop a
very dangerous condition. It's called pyrometra........ something or another.
Long time ago since my friend's cat got it so I'm not positive about the name.
But it causes a very serious infection and can kill them if not caught. Her
cat had to have an emergency spay and the vet had to basically scrape her
insides to clean out all the infection. Very painful for the cat.
Cats are reproductively different than us so maybe that's why. They do not
drop their egg until they are stimulated (sex). It may be that's why the
male's penis has the barbs on it - to stimulate the female to drop the egg,
thereby almost 100% guaranteeing fertilization. Yes, I read too much. Anyway,
so if she's not getting booty then what happens to the egg? I don't remember
what I read about that but I think that's part of why they can develop this
condition/infection.
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From: "Lee Evans" <moonsiste...@yahoo.com>
To: "felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Subject: [Felvtalk] Vaccinations
Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2012 6:05 pm
Tubal ligations are even dangerous in human females. They can open up, get
infected, cause blockages, even lead to tubal pregnancies although I don't know
exactly how that would happen. I worked in a medical office for 12 years and
tubals never seemed to work as advertised. Most women complained of pain long
afterwards, cramping, even bleeding. In addition, tubal ligation does nothing
to protect from breast cancer. Cats are very prone to mammary cancer so
spaying would be the best prevention for that terrible menace to cat health.
One of my cats had been diagnosed as borderline diabetic. Since Cookie was
going to be an indoor-only cat, the vet recommended leaving her intact, not
spaying. She was an older cat, went into heat about 3 times in my house and
then gave it up as a bad idea. But she
still had her hormone glands intact. About 5 years after I took her in, I
noticed that her belly fur was wet and clumpy and that her nipples had turned
dark brown. Her appetite was also failing and she actually was allowing me to
touch her, she was so weak. I took her to the vet. He diagnosed multiple
tumors in her mammary glands. Hormones are NOT the fountain of youth for a
cat. They do nothing for the immune system that good care, good food and good
supplements can't do. In addition, tubal ligation would do nothing to relieve
the cat from the distress of going into heat when breeding season comes around.
That's very stressful especially when the cat is not going to be bred. Same
with vasectomy for a male cat. You would have a howling, spraying cat pacing
around the house or running out to bite and fight although he could not make a
female pregnant. Sometimes vasectomies reverse themselves so
the cat might end up being fertile after all. It happens in humans quite
often. In cats, it still exposes them to the dangers of mating, including
contracting FIV and FeLv.
Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors
too!
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