My vet doesn't do spays/neuters (there are only three vets in town who do, because we have an *enormous* vet hospital through the college) so I forgot to ask neuter related questions last time I saw him, and I'm air-headed enough to forget next time, so I figured I'd ask around here.
Rowan is maybe 15-17 weeks old now, judging by when his teeth came in, but he's completely undeveloped so far. I don't want him to have an invasive procedure, but I also don't want him to get interested in getting out and roaming, or, heaven forbid, spraying.
I couldn't afford an invasive neuter (assuming that they're a lot more expensive, as they're a lot more complicated), but how long should I wait before I finally give in? I could swing it in a while if I start saving.
Also, I don't think that Rowan was born a stray, I think that he was abandoned by some moron Freshman who couldn't keep him in the dorms across the street. Can a vet feel if a kitten has been neutered, like how spays are so easily noticed? At our last appointment, the vet seemed very surprised that Rowan is so undeveloped. Our Humane Society (through the college's vet hospital) does early neuters/spays, and when he found me, Rowan was old enough to have been fixed, according to their guidelines. He would have been the same age as Bella was when she was neutered. I had him isolated for a long while (while I had 'found cat' signs up), and I didn't look for something like that. It would have been completely healed for a while before he finally became a perminant member of my little family and saw our vet.
Rowan is maybe 15-17 weeks old now, judging by when his teeth came in, but he's completely undeveloped so far. I don't want him to have an invasive procedure, but I also don't want him to get interested in getting out and roaming, or, heaven forbid, spraying.
I couldn't afford an invasive neuter (assuming that they're a lot more expensive, as they're a lot more complicated), but how long should I wait before I finally give in? I could swing it in a while if I start saving.
Also, I don't think that Rowan was born a stray, I think that he was abandoned by some moron Freshman who couldn't keep him in the dorms across the street. Can a vet feel if a kitten has been neutered, like how spays are so easily noticed? At our last appointment, the vet seemed very surprised that Rowan is so undeveloped. Our Humane Society (through the college's vet hospital) does early neuters/spays, and when he found me, Rowan was old enough to have been fixed, according to their guidelines. He would have been the same age as Bella was when she was neutered. I had him isolated for a long while (while I had 'found cat' signs up), and I didn't look for something like that. It would have been completely healed for a while before he finally became a perminant member of my little family and saw our vet.