On 2005-02-22, Meghan Noecker penned:

For example, two of my co-workers are a mother and son. They had a female
cat, and they felt they could not afford to get her fixed. So, she had 4
litters of 4 kittens each, all in less than 2 years. So, we finally
convinced her to get the cat fixed.

Isn't caring for a cat through four litters more expensive than spaying her in
the first place?

They haven't gotten another cat yet, but I know they will. And I don't know
how to convince him that the cat should be spayed and kept indoors. He
thinks that both are wrong, yet letting a young cat breed 4 times in 2 years
is extremely abusive in my opinion (as well as irresponsible), and letting
them outside is playing roulette with your cat's life.

This is sad. I had a friend who debated spaying his cat because he felt that
would be interfering with nature, and that nature is cruel and capricious. I
think I finally got through to him when I said, look, if the cat is allowed in
the house but the kittens aren't (another bizarre stance of his), then the cat
won't be able to fully care for the kittens, so you *are* interfering with
nature anyway. You should spay your cat so that she won't be put in a
position where she can't care for her kittens.

I don't know what I could have said if he'd had a boy cat.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

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