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Being as we have a male kitten getting neutered in a couple of weeks, I thought I would share some facts about neutering...hang on to your hats.
1. The actual desexing of a male cat usually takes only 2-5 minutes. Yep...that fast and that easy.
2. When they spay females, they are put on a heating pad during the surgery, but with males, because the neutering procedure is so fast, they don't put males on a heating pad until after the surgery.
3. There are no sutures/stitches used after they are neutered. The 2 incisions where they remove the testicles just heal on their own. Yep, no stitches.. As we always say these guys are very fast healers and I think this proves it lol. They often send them home with a e-collar to help prevent them from over grooming.
4. The one thing that might surprise you the most, is that with furry cats they do not shave the area, they actually pluck the hairs on the scrotum!!!
Big sigh...so for all members getting male kittens and anticipating neutering, it is a quick and easy procedure. The biggest take away is making sure your vet does NOT use Ketamine for the anesthesia for this breed. If there are underlying undetected heart conditions it can be fatal with this particular form of anesthesia.