heffel@shogun.DEC (Tracey Heffelfinger Dtn:354-7431 GSO/F5) (10/29/85)
Actually Spencer if you *really* want to be correct, try hysterectomy
and castration.
As for proper age, for females it's generally agreed that 6 months is
good. Gives her enough time to grow but gets her before her first heat.
(No "accidents" that way.) Males can be done as early as 6 months, but
generally vets prefer to wait until they are about 9 months old before doing
them. (The exceptions are when they mature early and start getting romantic
with things like knitted afghans, as our male Merry did, or when they have
something else wrong. Our cat Pippin had an umbilical hernia. That's not
unusual in kittens and they usually repair themselves. However Pip's was
getting bigger instead of smaller and since they had to go into the abdominal
cavity anyway to get an undescended testicle, our vet decided to get everything
at once at the age of 6 months.) (Trivia fact for the day: The condition
of having one testicle descended and the other not is called monorchidism.)
(Bet you can't wait for the next party, so you can show off that one!)
"I do nothing in particular but I do it very well." --W.S. Gilbert
Tracey Heffelfinger
Digital Equipment Corp.
Greenville, S.C.
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ARPA:heffelfinger%raven1.dec@decwrl.arpastu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH) (10/29/85)
> > Actually Spencer if you *really* want to be correct, try hysterectomy > and castration. > > Digital Equipment Corp. > Greenville, S.C. > > UUCP:{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-raven1!heffelfinger > ARPA:heffelfinger%raven1.dec@decwrl.arpa Try orchiectomy (one of three accepted spellings) for males.
jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) (10/30/85)
> > Actually Spencer if you *really* want to be correct, try hysterectomy > and castration. > Honest to goodness, when I called the vet to make an appointment to have my male cat turned into an it, the woman on the phone confrimed the appt "Ok, so that's Thursday for shots and castration ?". I admit it, I cringed. -- jcpatilla
wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) (11/04/85)
> (Trivia fact for the day: The condition > of having one testicle descended and the other not is called monorchidism.) Gee, I always called it a "fouled ball" ...:-) No signature necessary
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (11/13/85)
> Actually Spencer if you *really* want to be correct, try hysterectomy ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > and castration. Actually, Tracey, if *you* want to be correct, for the female it is called a ``tubal ligation''. The uterus is NOT removed; only the patency of the fallopian tubes is destroyed. The proper procedure is a double ligature, whereby each fallopian tube is cut, with a ligature placed on each cut end. A less than proper procedure used by some vets is to place metal clips on each fallopian tube; this is poor because the clips can loosen and, voila, kittens! === Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York === === UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry === === VOICE 716/741-9185 {rice,shell}!baylor!/ === === FAX 716/741-9635 {AT&T 3510D} ihnp4!/ === === === === "Have you hugged your cat today?" ===
johansen@agrigene.UUCP (11/16/85)
> > Actually Spencer if you *really* want to be correct, try hysterectomy > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > and castration. > > Actually, Tracey, if *you* want to be correct, for the female it is > called a ``tubal ligation''. The uterus is NOT removed; only the patency of > the fallopian tubes is destroyed. The proper procedure is a double ligature, > whereby each fallopian tube is cut, with a ligature placed on each cut end. A > less than proper procedure used by some vets is to place metal clips on each > fallopian tube; this is poor because the clips can loosen and, voila, kittens! > Sorry to disagree but I think the procedure is actually an ovariohysterectomy (sp?) ie both the ovaries and uterus are removed. After this procedure the female no longer goes into 'heat' presumably due to hormonal changes. If it were a simple 'tubal ligation', the cat would be in heat on a regular basis. The actual procedure done may of course depend on the vet.
jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews) (11/16/85)
> > Actually Spencer if you *really* want to be correct, try hysterectomy > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > and castration. > > Actually, Tracey, if *you* want to be correct, for the female it is > called a ``tubal ligation''. The uterus is NOT removed; only the patency of > the fallopian tubes is destroyed. The proper procedure is a double ligature, > whereby each fallopian tube is cut, with a ligature placed on each cut end. A > less than proper procedure used by some vets is to place metal clips on each > fallopian tube; this is poor because the clips can loosen and, voila, kittens! No, Larry. A tubal ligation would not prevent the cat from coming into heat, just like a tubal ligation does not prevent the ovaries in a woman from dispensing female hormones. When a cat or dog is *SPAYED* she has a hysterectomy, removing uterus and ovaries. She doesn't come in heat, and she doesn't have eggs. Joyce Andrews, AT&TIS, Indianapolis ihnp4!inuxd!jla
tj@alliant.UUCP (Tom Jaskiewicz) (11/17/85)
In article <575@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: >> Actually Spencer if you *really* want to be correct, try hysterectomy > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> and castration. > > Actually, Tracey, if *you* want to be correct, for the female it is >called a ``tubal ligation''. The uterus is NOT removed; . . . Actually "spaying" is an ovariohysterectomy, the complete removal of the uterus and BOTH ovaries. If just the tubes were tied, the animal would still go into heat (and what good is that?). -- +--------------------------------+ | uucp: decvax!linus!alliant!tj | +--------------------------------+ Bernese are mountains of love.