Monday, May 12, 2008

Lion King (robbed of his manhood)







*Lion King was sent to Clinic for Pets on 9th May 08 to be 'de-balled'*

Lion King is the most territorial of all cats in BTSS, marking his scent everywhere by spraying his potent liquid onto anything he fancies - car tyres, trees, motorbikes, chasing away other wandering felines who may be thinking of making the school their home. His behaviour may change after 2 or 3 months when the level of the testosterone drops.

Read up more on spraying here: http://www.dumpstercats.org/Articles/SprayingBehavior.htm

An extract:
Sterilizing a cat before he or she reaches maturity (unfortunately Lion King is already very old) is a good way to prevent spraying. For example, 90% of male sprayers stop within two months after neutering. Unfortunately, you could still have one of those 10% cats, who continues to do it after he’s neutered because it is a learned habit.


If the cat is neutered before it ever sprays, it very likely will never begin spraying at all.


thats true because my 4 year old male kitty never sprayed as he was sterilized between 4 to 6 months of age.