Spaying your female cat will help control the pet population in your neighborhood. Learn how and when to best spay your female cat.
Nearly 2,000 cats are born every hour in the United States. Cats that don't have homes and are known as strays spread diseases to other animals and to humans and damage property. But you can help stop this problem by spaying your female cats when you don't want them to reproduce.
The best time to spay a female cat is when it is between six and seven months of age, this is when it's just starting to mature sexually. You want to try to spay your cat before it is one year old because it then becomes less likely that they'll develop any sexual organs after that if you do it early enough. For this reason, you need to decide early on in your relationship with your cat whether you'll be spaying it.
You should give quite a bit of thought before spaying your pet. If your animal has an amazing temperament and a great personality, you may want to consider breeding that animal to continue the line of such a demeanor. If you ever plan to show your female cat in competition, it may be ineligible for such competition if you spay it.
However, spaying will help make your cat much happier by not having to go through heat periods. If your cat has a major deformity or handicap, you should probably spay your cat so it won't possibly spread the disease to the next generation. You also should spay your cat if you don't think you could ever handle having many more baby cats at some point in the future. If you keep your cat's reproductive organs intact, be prepared for a pregnancy.
If you spay your female cat, you'll likely notice a great personality change in your pet. You'll see a much calmer, happier cat and a more even-tempered animal. You may also see that your female cat will see a weight increase and will eat more. This means you'll have to exercise your cat more in order to keep it fit.
The typical spaying process includes removing the ovaries from the cat. If your cat doesn't have ovaries, it won't go through the estrus cycles. You need to make sure you remove all of the ovaries, or the possibility will exist that it may still go into heat. You likely should do a hysterectomy in every spaying, as well. This helps keep your female cat's organs healthy as it grows older and more susceptible to disease.
