My tom-cat Georgy

[Miss Chicken]

The stray I took in a few months ago is being desexed today.

He isn't happy. Georgy is food-obsessed (due to him being so underfeed before he came to us) and he hasn't been allowed to eat since 7 o'clock last night. He is also at the front door miaowing because he wants to go outside. Little does he know that soon he will be forced to go into the cat carrier which he hates.

Today is not a good day for him.

I am paying for this operation out of the coins I have saved during the last six months. I managed to save over $300 out of which I also bought my beloved Miss Chicken a cat gym/tower.

Miss Chicken gets a wonderful toy, Georgy gets his balls cut off. It that fair?

My third cat, Spider is getting nothing at all.

 

[An Officer]

How do you afford the feed all these pets!

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Miss Chicken gets a wonderful toy, Georgy gets his balls cut off. It that fair?

Absolutely. It's just the way nature works.

 

[SPOCKED]

Miss Chicken gets a wonderful toy, Georgy gets his balls cut off. It that fair?

Sounds like my first marriage

My cat had to spend the whole day outside since we were both at work. We really haven't seen him use the cat house since I added the heat pad. It's very frustrating - he used to LOVE that house but now we're thinking he isn't even going in it (and it's wintry cold outside, of course). Why would that be? All I've done was move it 6 feet and add the new pad...

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I'm thinking that 6 feet was too much in one move. Maybe if you just moved it a few inches at a time.

You know how cats are- they freak out over change.

You should've seen the carrying on when I changed to my new couch. They were so pissed at me. Then we discovered that Beverly was too fat to get the oomph up to jump up on the new (higher) couch, so I had to pick her up at first to get her up there.

 

[trampledamage]

My guess would be he's bothered by the heat pad - maybe try just putting some blankets in.

(and poor Georgy...)

 

[RJDiogenes]

Miss Chicken gets a wonderful toy, Georgy gets his balls cut off. It that fair?

My third cat, Spider is getting nothing at all.

Sounds like it all averages out.

Kind of reminds me of that old Far Side cartoon: "I'm going to the vet to get tutored!"

My cat had to spend the whole day outside since we were both at work. We really haven't seen him use the cat house since I added the heat pad. It's very frustrating - he used to LOVE that house but now we're thinking he isn't even going in it (and it's wintry cold outside, of course). Why would that be? All I've done was move it 6 feet and add the new pad...

It might be true that the heating pad is too much. It might just be overpowering or stuffy within that enclosed space. See if he'll go back in without it.

 

[Miss Chicken]

We took Georgy up about 2 and half hours ago and we just recieved a phonecall from the vets telling us Georgy had his op without any complications and was starting to wake up from the anesthesia. We can pick him up in four more hours.

He is now offically an it.

 

[Australis]

Miss C, don't you have something like a Cat Society in your part of the world? Up here, if you take in a stray or bring in kittens, they'll donate a significant amount towards the cost of desexing them. A stray adopted us once and had kittens in our garage, and the CS helped with the desexing and finding homes for them all.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I know that if you get a cat from the Cat's Home here you get it desexed at a discount rate. However this cat was abandoned by a neighbour when they moved out and I doubt the cat home helps such cats.

We didn't know who he belonged to at first but a few weeks later another neighbour told us. The poor cat's fur was extremely matted and he was very thin (about 2 1/3 kilos) when he frst started to visit us He now weighs about 4 kilos.

It id only costing me $118 to desex him and I am happy to pay that.

I am hoping he might get on with Miss Chicken more (she is a desex female) now that he is done. He already gets on very well with Spider (desexed male) but Spider gets on well with most other cats.

Here is a photo of our Georgy.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Oh, he is SO cute!

We have a place that neuters all cats and dogs for a discount. Course, we're pretty liberal around here, so we have lots of programs like that.

 

[Australis]

Yeah, he is a cutie (can I say that now he's not a male? )

 

[M'Sharak]

Here is a photo of our Georgy.

That's a nice pic. His personal cubbyhole and lair, I presume?

 

[Miss Chicken]

That is him coming out from underneath the house at my former home. I had to knock out the grill of two of the vents because the neighbour's dog was allowed to roam and he was a known cat killer. The cats needed somewhere they could safely bolt to if he come into our yard.

 

[Timewalker]

Aww, Georgy looks like such a sweetheart, and he has gorgeous markings!

Yes, he is still a "he." And he'll be a lot more mellow and friendly now. My boy cats turned into furry marshmallows after their operations, and they just loved to cuddle (but not with each other).

 

[Squiggy]

I read this thread as "My tom-cat orgy" and clicked on it anyway.

Maybe my detractors are right.

 

[SeerSGB]

Aww, Georgy looks like such a sweetheart, and he has gorgeous markings!

Yes, he is still a "he." And he'll be a lot more mellow and friendly now. My boy cats turned into furry marshmallows after their operations, and they just loved to cuddle (but not with each other).

Everyone says neutering calms their male cats, in my family's experience it actually made our male more aggressive. We had him fixed at about 9 months / 12 months old. Before he was pretty chilled-- a little protective of family members, but all and all pretty mellow. After wards, he clawed furniture, climbed anything he could get his claws into, started having issues with not using the litter-pan which took a bit of work to break him from, got overall more aggressive.

 

[Timewalker]

That's when you give him a twig of honeysuckle to sniff and cuddle with. With some cats it's more potent than catnip. We have a honeysuckle tree in our front yard, and discovered its properties when my dad was doing some pruning... later on, he found my younger cat, Gussy, lying on his back in the box where the pruned twigs were. Gussy's paws were curled over, and he had a blissful, dopey grin on his face: "Hey, peace an' love, man -- I feel gooooood!"

Later on, I discovered that all four of my cats loved honeysuckle, and kept a few twigs on hand as rewards, or to calm them if they got aggressive (with two males and two females of various ages, they didn't all get along together).

 

[RJDiogenes]

No wonder I love honeysuckle. Groovy, man.

 

[M'Sharak]

I read this thread as "My tom-cat orgy" and clicked on it anyway.

Maybe my detractors are right.

*snerf*