Quote from: Autumn on November 08, 2007, 02:07:01 AM
Isn't it cruel to cut off a cat's scrotum, particularly before puberty sets in so that he'll never have the biological desires/capability that he was meant to have?
Eh, they do not cut off the cat's scrotum. They cut it open and pull the testicles out.
I don't think it's cruel to do this before puberty so he'll never have the biological desire to spray your couch with urine. Inappropriate urination is the #1 reason cats are relinquished to shelters, and most cats die there.
I certainly think it's just fine for a cat to not be able to reproduce. One unaltered female cat will drop ten or twelve kittens every year. If every homeless pet in the country was adopted and they were all distributed evenly, every American household would have twenty-two cats and eight dogs. This is not funny.
Plus, really, if you watch them you'll probably agree with me that female dogs and cats are not having any fun at all when they have a heat. And male dogs seem pretty stressed out by their sex-drives, too. Sex is fun for most humans, but for most animals it seems to be a burden.
Speaking of trans cats, we found another appearantly-female intersexed cats at my work. The uterus of a cat looks a lot like a pair of pants. The doc goes to spay her and finds that the pants have only one leg, and up where the second ovary ought to be there's a thing that's not quite an ovary and not quite a testicle, and small for either. I was going to collect it, had another one much like it in a jar of formalin, but somebody threw it away. If I figure out who threw away my cat-parts, should I forgive them?