Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-shogun!heffel From: heffel@shogun.DEC (Tracey Heffelfinger Dtn:354-7431 GSO/F5) Newsgroups: net.pets Subject: \"fixed\" versus \"spayed or neutered\" Message-ID: <1120@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 16:28:10 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1120 Posted: Mon Oct 28 16:28:10 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 06:07:34 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 26 Actually Spencer if you *really* want to be correct, try hysterectomy and castration. As for proper age, for females it's generally agreed that 6 months is good. Gives her enough time to grow but gets her before her first heat. (No "accidents" that way.) Males can be done as early as 6 months, but generally vets prefer to wait until they are about 9 months old before doing them. (The exceptions are when they mature early and start getting romantic with things like knitted afghans, as our male Merry did, or when they have something else wrong. Our cat Pippin had an umbilical hernia. That's not unusual in kittens and they usually repair themselves. However Pip's was getting bigger instead of smaller and since they had to go into the abdominal cavity anyway to get an undescended testicle, our vet decided to get everything at once at the age of 6 months.) (Trivia fact for the day: The condition of having one testicle descended and the other not is called monorchidism.) (Bet you can't wait for the next party, so you can show off that one!) "I do nothing in particular but I do it very well." --W.S. Gilbert Tracey Heffelfinger Digital Equipment Corp. Greenville, S.C. UUCP:{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-raven1!heffelfinger ARPA:heffelfinger%raven1.dec@decwrl.arpa