early neutering

Re: early neutering

emmadilemma — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:41:55 GMT

I`ve worked on a couple of neutering projects abroad and have seen it done on tiny puppies and kittens as the clinic was only in certain areas for a few days at a time then wouldn`t be back. I found it kinda tough at first to deal with but to be honest they recovered really well and didn`t seem traumatised at all. Anything that reduces the dog and cat population can`t be a bad thing in my opinion.

Re: early neutering

shakira miles — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:27:59 GMT

Thanks for the reply, we'll maybe you guys could start it up? Cats protection help promote practices that do early neutering. At the moment ours work amazingly well, quick surgery and recovery does help. We use 0.05 Dom/ket and torb under 2kg or 0.1 ket,dom and torb over 2kg works so well. Down so quick and recover well. Analgesia we use 0.05 vetergesic if too young for meloxicam. It will open up too many clients too. Thanks a lot

Re: early neutering

Tracy Windler RVN — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:32:32 GMT

We neutered my 3 rescue farm kittens at approx 12 weeks, after the vet did some research. That way we could rehome them already neutered, but if they had to go back to the farm (took a while to cure their feral-ness!), we knew they wouldn't get trapped again very easily. I was concerned about their recovery, being so small, but if anything, they recovered quicker than the normal 6 month neuter. We havn't introduced it as a routine for clients, but thats probably more out of habit, if someone requested it, it wouldn't be a problem.

Re: early neutering

Sal the 1st — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:04:04 GMT

whilst I agree early neutering would prevent accidental litters a large proportion of the esp bull breeds are a result of people breeding to turn a quick profit and it is still happening. I used to see it all the time when I worked in charity practice - we used to get them coming in for caesars and the owners not only knew the breed of dog that their bitch had been caught by (ie another staffy) but if pushed could often come up with the date and occasionally the time they were caught! Never ever wanted us to spay the bitch tho at the same time as caesar, even had one that threatened to sue us if we did, ( funny that!). Sometimes we used to check the ads in the local paper and lo and behold those same clients phone numbers would come up time and time again with puppies for sale at silly prices - we confronted a couple of the serial offenders and suggested they may like to declare some of their earnings to the benefits agency as they were all on benefits, or maybe attend a vet practice where they were required to pay

Re: early neutering

sarahjune84 — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:38:33 GMT

We have started to do female cats from 4months old, I had my kitten done at 13weeks old and would highly recommend it.I dont think she even realised she had been operated on! I do think it depends on the vets ability if doing them so young is a good idea, they need to be quick and have a good surgical technique.