Helping my local stray females

Pregnant 

I know that female cats living on the street are better off without repeated pregnancies. Humans feed stray cats and think they are being kind. Well, they are being kind but they could do better. 

Please help your local mom cat get spayed so that she isn't worn out with repeated pregnancies. Even females that are riddled with worms or suffering from diseases will still get pregnant.

Many of them will lose their kittens - up to 75% feral or unowned kittens will die before they are six months old. And then the mother cat will get pregnant again... and again... and again.

We cats do not have a population crisis. We don't need more kittens. There are too many unwanted kittens and cats in the world already - living on the streets, eating from dustbins or thrown away take-away meals, dying from traffic accidents, starvation or disease.

 

•  My human has a substack on why females are better off spayed - http://celiahaddoncatexpert.substack.com

 

 

Why I am better off without my testicles

 

I am better off without these?

As a privileged house cat, with a devoted human servant, I have always understood that there was a trade-off. In return for the peace and comfort of sharing my bed with my human, I had to forgo the hurly burly of sex on the rooftops with a female cat. 

Was the trade-off worth it? I lost some of the excitement of life, it is true. I don't have kittens to continue my bloodline. I don't have the sharp short pleasure of the sex act.

What I gained was better health. I am free from the fatal diseases spread by fighting other tom cats -- Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and feline leukaemia virus (FeLV). I also don't have scars, wounds or even abcesses resulting from wound.

If I had my testicles I would be outside roaming around looking for sex. Wanting sex and not getting it, is not in itself a pleasure. And, moreover, tom cat roaming often means leaving home or being thrown out of home because I was smelly and peed in the house. Roaming puts tom cat at risk from traffic or bigger animals

So I am healthier and have all the pleasures of a regular and longer life. Worth it? I think so.

And I contribute a lot to human emotional welfare. 

 

• For my human's view on this go to http://celiahaddoncatexpert.substack.com