Kitten Spaying

[SpotsandBays]

Hey all!
At what age did you have your kitten spayed?

 

[Micky]

As soon as up to weight and when the vet suggests..

 

[HufflyPuffly]

Tiger and Lilly at 6 months. Huffle at 10/12 months, can't quite remember only that it was in lockdown and they wouldn't at first, and I had to deal with a ragingly in season Huffle who tried to climb out of the upstairs window . Squirrel at approx 6 months too, still in the lockdown 2020 hokey-cokey, but she had an umbilical hernia that also needed repairing and I wouldn't wait any longer for her.

 

[OrangeAndLemon]

As Micky said, it's more about weight than age.

 

[Equi]

As soon as the vet said they can. They were feral though so I needed to get them done so I could let them out of the locked room.

 

[julesjoy]

6 months. Probably weight dependant.

 

[Archangel]

I had the ferals done at around 6 months.

 

[Sparky Lily]

All of mine were spayed at 6 months.

 

[Lacuna]

12/13 months. She was the runt of the litter and was so tiny that I wanted to let her grow before the op.

Never let her out before spay though

 

[SussexbytheXmasTree]

6 months for spaying or neutering. Mine don’t go out until after they’re done. My vet actually didn’t want to neuter my male kitten before 6 months even though I’d read it was fine.

 

[SpotsandBays]

Thanks all! Google said 4 months which seems pretty young to me.
Mein is 3.5 months old and not allowed outside currently (going to wait until after the procedure). Recently she’s been super super loving and mewing abit at night time. Thinking her hormones are changing!

 

[HufflyPuffly]

To add you will 100% know if she does become in season, an in season female cat is quite something to behold . Think Huffle was 9 months before her first one and we are all still traumatized lol. I have no idea how people cope if they are breeders .

edit: Mine all stayed in too until they were done.

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

To add you will 100% know if she does become in season, an in season female cat is quite something to behold . Think Huffle was 9 months before her first one and we are all still traumatized lol. I have no idea how people cope if they are breeders .

edit: Mine all stayed in too until they were done.

The vet postponed my mum's ragdolls spay for a month as he wanted her a bit bigger/heavier... She came into season this time... My word is it something to behold... The come and get me poses, the constant noises as if living with a budgie...

Yet the boy one, even though she was all come and get me boys and he's been known to sex up an arm, or a throw? Completely ignored her advances

 

[Ratface]

The vet postponed my mum's ragdolls spay for a month as he wanted her a bit bigger/heavier... She came into season this time... My word is it something to behold... The come and get me poses, the constant noises as if living with a budgie...

Yet the boy one, even though she was all come and get me boys and he's been known to sex up an arm, or a throw? Completely ignored her advances

Oh dear. Poor Miss Cat. I hope it didn't damage her self-esteem!

 

[HufflyPuffly]

The vet postponed my mum's ragdolls spay for a month as he wanted her a bit bigger/heavier... She came into season this time... My word is it something to behold... The come and get me poses, the constant noises as if living with a budgie...

Yet the boy one, even though she was all come and get me boys and he's been known to sex up an arm, or a throw? Completely ignored her advances

Oh dear at least all mine are girls! They were quite affronted by being presented with a wiggly Huff ass to the face, accompanied by yowls of come get me!

 

[julesjoy]

The rescue I got mine from wanted her done at 12 weeks! Apparently it happena a lot to rescues so they can make sure they are done before rehoming. Thankfully they were OK with my vet waiting.

 

[Bluewaves]

I adopted three kittens together.

I got the boys done at about four and a half months and my girl about five and a half months. The boys were bigger and i wanted to get them done before they started to enjoy spraying the furniture. I had read that once boys start spraying, it's hard to get them to stop even after they've been neutered.

on some of the US cat adoption pages i follow, they get they done when they are very young, before they are adopted so pretty much when they have completely weaned off their mum.

 

[Boulty]

Current guidance is that they can be done from as early as 4 months. There’s zero need, benefits or logic to wait until they’re 6 months. (Although if they’re going to be kept in until after they’ve been done / are planned to be totally indoor cats it won’t harm either… if cat is being allowed out from a young age then there’s definite benefit to the cat population as a whole of them being done at 4 months to prevent unwanted kittens) If they’re below 2kg it can slightly change the drug protocols used but it’s definitely still doable.

Policy Statement 1: Timing of neutering

Traditionally both male and female cats have been neutered at six months old. For social, health and population control reasons, there is a strong case for neutering earlier. People working with feral cats may already be neutering at a much earlier age – often around eight weeks old, but...

www.thecatgroup.org.uk

 

[Boulty]

To answer the original question mine was done at 4 months, bounced back from GA very quickly & was acting like nothing had happened the next day.

 

[Lacuna]

To add you will 100% know if she does become in season, an in season female cat is quite something to behold . Think Huffle was 9 months before her first one and we are all still traumatized lol. I have no idea how people cope if they are breeders .

edit: Mine all stayed in too until they were done.

Holy moly - they are absolute floozies.

Rosie was trying to cwtch up with Bob (5 years older and neutered) he was very confused and just hid from her. My friend's Sphinx was worse (she is also now neutered) - she developed a obsession with her owners head and the nose of their German Shepherd.

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

I was a Cats Protector Fosterer and from memory I think it is not about age, it is about weight.

Think 2k was the figure we used to use when considering neutering/castration.

 

[fetlock]

I had my current one done at four and a half months.

Wasn’t intending to but, as Siamese are prone to do, she came into heat for the first time very early, was demented with herself during it, as was I, with the non stop Loud racket she was making. So soon as the second heat arrived I booked her in for straight after.

 

[poiuytrewq]

We had Ava done at about 8 months. She’s pretty tiny and we didn’t have her from real baby stage.

 

[SEL]

She was about 6 months but no one was sure because she was a stray who adopted me and wasn't in great condition. Vets weren't sure if she'd already been spayed but the minute the weight went on and she was healthy she climbed on the neighbour's shed roof and started shouting for boyfriends. Given there were some large male strays in the area (who all carried on hanging out with her in my garden for years after she decided she was a domestic cat) I whipped her off to the vets pronto.

She'd have had cute kittens but one was enough!