"CatNipped" wrote in message
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"William Hamblen" wrote in message
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On 2006-01-27, MaryL -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote:
I just posted a message in rpca in which I urged someone to have his
cat
neutered as soon as possible. His cat is 14 months old, and he thought
the
cat needed to "grow fully" before having him neutered. I quoted from a

I could point out the obvious: I've yet to see a tomcat have kittens.
There are good reasons to neuter a tom, but population control really
isn't one of them. Unless you can operate on all (or nearly all) of
the breeding population it isn't going to make much difference. One
intact tom can serve many intact queens. For population control put
your money on spaying queens, first.

This makes no sense - you seem to be arguing against your point. If one
intact tom can service many queens then it would be more cost effective to
neuter the tom to keep him from impregnating many queens (and in actuality
is, since toms costs less to neuter than queens to spay). You are
preventing "many" pregnancies by neutering "one" tom. Yes, there are
other
intact toms who will impregnate queens if you neuter only one, but there
are
also other queens who will be impregnated if you spay only one queen -
that
part of the argument is moot.
Hugs,

CatNipped

It makes no sense the way you phrased it
But if you have a colony of 10 males and 10 females and you trap and neuter
9 males, all 10 femles will get pregnant from the one male you didn't get.
In fact I'll bet if you neuter all 10 males the females will all still get
pregnant from a roaming tom that hears 10 females in heat.
You need to spay as many females as possible to keep them from making
kittens.
Unfortunately I don't know how to trap just females so I fix what ever winds
up in the trap.
ron