I get asked all the time 'Does it matter if I don't neuter my Tom? He can't have kittens'... famous last words, bub, but it does take two to tango, and an un-neutered Tom does like to tango!
Read the below if you need any reasons at at all NOT to get your Tom 'done'...
1. It reduces the risk of contagious disease
The feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is transmitted through deep bite wounds, which are often incurred during cat fights. Experience leads me to believe that most cats infected with FIV happen to be males who were not neutered as kittens.
2. It eliminates urine spraying
The acrid odour of cat spray sticks to everything it touches. Fabrics, books, carpets, bedding, and even walls and wood trim that have been doused by a tomcat are often ruined. If you want to avoid spending countless hours cleaning up after your cat or living in a cesspool of stench, get him neutered and the spraying will stop.
3. It reduces or eliminates roaming
Tomcats are consummate escape artists: If they sense even a whiff of a female cat in heat, they will do anything and everything to get out of the house and mate with her.
4. It reduces the risk of injury by cars and people
Cats who are neutered tend to roam less and therefore are much less likely to get hit by cars or abused by humans who get some kind of psychopathic glee from doing abusing cats.
5. It reduces the risk of injury from fighting
Sure, you may think your tomcat’s notched ear makes him look cool and rakish, but the odds are very good that at some point he’s going to come home a lot worse off than that. There's no thrill quite like cleaning out a ruptured abscess on an aggravated and painful tomcat's neck: Trust me, I know this from experience.
6. Neutered cats live happier, longer lives
In addition to reducing the risk of injury, fighting and disease, neutering also eliminates the risk of testicular cancer and lowers the possibility that a cat will develop hormone-related chronic conditions such as prostate problems or “stud tail.”
This is courtesy of Catster.com and was posted by Jane A Kelley... wise advice.
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