Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!thoma From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas) Newsgroups: net.pets Subject: age when cats are done growing Message-ID: <2129@reed.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 17:15:39 EST Article-I.D.: reed.2129 Posted: Sun Nov 10 17:15:39 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:41:24 EST Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 12 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Someone recently said that cats shouldn't be neutered/spayed until they are 9-10 months old, and claimed that this is when they are mature... Most of the cats I have known from kittenhood on didn't reach their full physical growth until they were about 2 years old; while younger than that, they remain sort of skinny and gangly and clumsy (like a teenager, ya' know!) Ann Muir Thomas "life in a day/what can I say" -- Simple Minds