Don’t let shelters fucking kill your cats
As much as the media likes to say “SPAY AND NEUTER- CONTROL CAT POPULATION” they never tell you about the negative side effects.
With female cats it’s less of a problem but TONS of male cats die every year because they are neutered as small kittens. Either by shelters that adopt them out, or by owners who don’t know any better. By doing this you are dooming your boy cat to a slow and painful death.
A male cat that is neutered before their penis is mature enough will develop “blockages” that can be life threatening. Your boy cat will lack the ability to properly pass urine and will develop a block that will distend their bladder and back their urine into their kidneys and cause infection. This leads to having to either repeatedly have a vet put a catheter in him which will become VERY expensive, or you have to pay for an equally expensive surgery where the cat’s penis is removed. Essentially turning the “male” opening to a “female” opening. And even then this is not a permanent solution that guarantees success.
My cat is in the emergency room right now. He’s fighting for his life because a shelter neutered him before his body was grown enough to heal properly. He’s only two years old and his life is in danger. Because this shelter decided that this cat who was too young to make babies, needed his tubes cut.
If you’re going to neuter/spay, at least wait until your cat is done growing. Let them fully mature so that their bodies can heal and know HOW to heal. If you took a human man and cut his tubes when he was a baby, this would cause major complications into adult hood with growth and hormones. It is no different in another other species on our planet. It’s not like a circumcision, you are removing function from an entire ORGAN. One that is connected to parts of them that are necessary to LIVE.
Control population but don’t do it at the cost of your cat’s life. Don’t control population by killing cats slowly because you’re just too impatient to wait.