Hello everyone!
Me and my girlfriend have just adopted a beautiful little cat (male) 3 weeks ago. He is around 4 months now, and so there is still plenty of time before the neutering. The vet told us to wait when the pee starts to have a different odour and call immediately to perform the surgery. The cat is allegedly a Bengal and when he saw him the vet told us to wait this pee sign as Bengals need to grow as much as possible, and neutering could interfere with his growth.
This should happen in probably 3/4 months from today.
Still I feel really really bad at doing this, Shiva (the name of our little guy) is a very cute cat and he is really often looking for attention from us, wants to play with us often, he does like cuddle time (but not too much lol), if we already played together and we want a break, he still follows us and start resting near us (for example if I start playing on PC he will start sleeping/resting nearby). He is very vocal and participant in the family life, likes to come out with us with the harness (still he would prefer no harness I believe lol). Sometimes he also likes to be left alone and for example will climb on top of the wardrobe to rest on his own, he has proved himself really intelligent, I was able to teach him his name in just a few attempts, he is the cutest cat and will bring you his toys to play together and so on.
He is really elusive and suspicious with anyone except me and my gf (maybe because he is still a little puppy), it seems he really trusts us, he wants us to pet him on the belly and so on. So I feel like I would take advantage of his trust in order to neuter him.
I feel really, really bad at neutering him as I feel like I would do something terrible to him. I read that many cats will never come back to "normal" after the neutering and this freaks me out. I would hate myself if he would turn from this playful loyal cat to a cat with no will to live. Is this possible?
Is it really this the only way to prevent him from spraying all over the house when he will be adult? Unfortunately he cannot live outside as I'm sure someone will just steal him and also there are other 3 aggressive cats (not against humans but between them lol) living in the building backyard (a small condominium with a backyard where we go walking with him)
Please give me your feedback and your experiences
Me and my girlfriend have just adopted a beautiful little cat (male) 3 weeks ago. He is around 4 months now, and so there is still plenty of time before the neutering. The vet told us to wait when the pee starts to have a different odour and call immediately to perform the surgery. The cat is allegedly a Bengal and when he saw him the vet told us to wait this pee sign as Bengals need to grow as much as possible, and neutering could interfere with his growth.
This should happen in probably 3/4 months from today.
Still I feel really really bad at doing this, Shiva (the name of our little guy) is a very cute cat and he is really often looking for attention from us, wants to play with us often, he does like cuddle time (but not too much lol), if we already played together and we want a break, he still follows us and start resting near us (for example if I start playing on PC he will start sleeping/resting nearby). He is very vocal and participant in the family life, likes to come out with us with the harness (still he would prefer no harness I believe lol). Sometimes he also likes to be left alone and for example will climb on top of the wardrobe to rest on his own, he has proved himself really intelligent, I was able to teach him his name in just a few attempts, he is the cutest cat and will bring you his toys to play together and so on.
He is really elusive and suspicious with anyone except me and my gf (maybe because he is still a little puppy), it seems he really trusts us, he wants us to pet him on the belly and so on. So I feel like I would take advantage of his trust in order to neuter him.
I feel really, really bad at neutering him as I feel like I would do something terrible to him. I read that many cats will never come back to "normal" after the neutering and this freaks me out. I would hate myself if he would turn from this playful loyal cat to a cat with no will to live. Is this possible?
Is it really this the only way to prevent him from spraying all over the house when he will be adult? Unfortunately he cannot live outside as I'm sure someone will just steal him and also there are other 3 aggressive cats (not against humans but between them lol) living in the building backyard (a small condominium with a backyard where we go walking with him)
Please give me your feedback and your experiences