Cat Neutering, Is all this really necessary??

GwylimT

All of the dogs and cats we have owned had been neutered/spayed, using various local vets and none we willing to put an animal under or sedate without doing a blood screen first. We have never been given food or anything though, we have always been given a cone collar in case we needed to use it, I know when our cat was spayed in September she had metacam, a four day supply was £9.

stir_crazy

I had my girl done last year, I wasn't offered anything other than the operation, and I asked for her to be chipped at the same time. I was advised that the pain relief they had given her would last for 24 hours, and she was completely fine after that had worn off. I think it cost about £75 all together.

My mum's had over a dozen cats over the years, both boys and girls, she's never been offered blood tests or laser treatments either. We use different vets, so not just one practice who doesnt offer it.

4nnabella

Both of my cats I currently have (one boy, one girl) have been neutered for free thanks to a voucher through the local Cats Protection. They frequently run an offer to provide full or partial contribution towwards the cost of neutering and advertise it in our local paper so it might be worth contacting your local branch to see if they do similar? It is available to anyone, i.e not just those on benefits or low income, you just have a limitied options on which vets practices you can use the voucher at. Luckily for me, the vets we were already registered with were one of the options. I paid an extra £20 for both cats to have them microchipped at the same time, but there were no blood tests, no additional pain killers, no special food, and both my cats were fine after the op.
If this sort of thing is not available to you in your area I hope you are able to find a more wallet-friendly option for you and Tango

ic

My vet charges £36 for a girl, £24 for a boy. Microchipping I think is £15.

penny_pincha

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

It's my understanding that a female cat who is not "served" by a male will continually come into season, over and over again. Even when the female is securely locked up indoors you still have the possibility of tom-cats visiting and spraying outside your property, and very likely fighting between themselves all the while.

I think you have been misinformed here. A female cat will keep coming into call but not like you suggest - over and over again. There won't be hoards of un-neutered Toms at your door either. Female cats will come into call for a few days may be only two or three days then go out of call for 6 weeks or even months at a time but some girls come into call several times but not for weeks on end in my experience. I speak as a breeder and only wish that some individuals would come into call more often as a mating doesn't take then they don't come back into call for months. Just to be clear before anyone jumps down my throat I do not repeated allow my girls to have numerous litters, only one a year per girl.

Main point though - girls who are not to be kept to specifically breed from should be neutered as they can develop pyometra.

xnatillyx

Salem was neutered yesterday , it went well. If anything he has come back a little weird than usual , i think the anesthetic has sent him funny :rotfl: :rotfl:

But bless him he was very brave , he only meowed twice on the way when he was in the box of doom and he was relaxed as anything on the way back. What gets me is how the vets say they will be sleepy , oh not our cat he wouldn't keep still when he was home.

I also found out a bit more what the vets offer. The food afterwards is included. However blood work is additional but she said being a younger cat it wasn't needed. She did mention about worming , flea treatment & micro-chipping but he is flea free for now and is a house cat so we didn't need any of that. But i like options being talked about. We also found out he is a bit big bless him. 5.5kg :eek: so he is getting a bit less food now so hopefully he will not get too big , she did say he was quite long though. he got a rectal temperature reading which was funny and his heart which is perfectly normal. we didn't get either of those when our other cat Jessie was spayed. Best moment was when he ran off the scales before he got weighed. Cheeky thing

PinkTiger

aww, glad it went ok, it's obviously not just the ladies who don't like to be weighed! I have an extra soft spot for black cats, he's a beauty.


I take mine to a vets that does discount neutering & vaccinations, I got a shock when i clicked on the link from a couple of posts up & that is actually the one mine go to, so Hello to ic :wave: we must live near each other. microchipping was indeed £15 a couple of years ago, not sure if it's changed, it was £5 cheaper than the pdsa charge.

deedeeliz

http://vetsklinic.co.uk/pricing

It's a shame Mine are done already!

Operations Standard price Minimum online price
Cat castration £29 £18
Cat spay £65 £37

mrsHall2b

i was really lucky i got to take advantage of the cats protection spay/neutering offer and got my girlie spayed and microchipped for £25.

its quite scary seeing some of the other prices just for spay/neutering which is a reasonably straight forward procedure.

luckily enough because i got my rabbit from a rescue centre i have a voucher to get her spayed for free.

i have insurance to deal with any future vets bills so i dont end up having a heart attack in the reception (i also have a bank account with a little going in each month as i know sometimes you have to pay first & reclaim on insurance)

Shoshannah

mrsHall2b wrote: »

its quite scary seeing some of the other prices just for spay/neutering which is a reasonably straight forward procedure.

I would imagine it costs the NHS substantially more than £25, or even £60 for that matter, to perform a hysterectomy. A cat spay is abdominal surgery at the end of the day.

Even priced at £60, practices perform neuters at a loss.