in article , Margaret S. at
wrote on 1/30/05 12:47 PM:

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:16:51 -0500, KellyH wrote:

"Margaret S." wrote in message
.. .

What has worked well in some indoor/outdoor situations, is one or more
females that have been sterilized by "remove the uterus but leave the
ovaries." The females still go in heat and enjoy mating (tho they can't
get
pregnant), so the males are scared to leave home for fear of missing
some
action. As a neighborhood public service, might consider giving the
male
a vasectomy so some neighborood females might skip a litter now and
then.

/snip/

He will still spray,
roam, fight, all the negative behaviors that go along with an intact male.


That's why I specified "some indoor/outdoor situations." An intact or
vasectomied tom, ime, cannot be an indoor-only cat; he needs a good deal of
time outside to do his spraying and other male stuff.

As I said at my site:
"Sometimes neutering [a tomcat] will prevent or lessen [spraying], sometimes
not. Vasectomy will NOT lessen it; a vasectomied tom will still behave like
a full, intact tom."
And:
"Another problem [besides spraying] is that, tho some male dogs can be
satisfied with one mate, and one* tom can be enough for a female cat, an
intact or vasectomied tomcat will probably need a harem of at least two or
three intact females or more to keep him happy."


Margaret S.


I don't know what is up with you and vasectomies. I quite honestly hope no
one is "reading your web page" that you keep going on about. You sound like
a loonie. Why the hell would *anyone* just do a vasectomy on a tom? Cripes.