juushika

This comment <33333 Love you, love our shared cat stories, love that you pick out in my cats who much of what makes me love my cats.

I was so surprised when I saw the posts about your kittens' spays! It also lead to some googling which turned up (paraphrasing rando pet website articles, none of this is like ... rigorously scientific): waiting until 5+ months is safer for anesthesia/healing, there are pro/cons (pro: developmental benchmarks, con: risk of cancer) for erring later, but spaying younger is an acceptable risk and the real thing is that owners Just Don't Do It so humane societies prefer to take that risk and fix every cat, including kittens. And frankly, I concur. In a better world, I might have picked a later date?? Who knows. But I would rather they rush to fix a kitten as soon as it's viable instead of trusting randos to make the responsible choice.

So I don't know if it's common throughout the US, but it is here (in a pretty progressive corner of the States).

I also had to wait a few days to adopt Toby because they were like "okay but let's chop his balls off rq;" he was a year old, so age wasn't the issue, but there was never even a possibility of me taking him before the procedure. (Again, I think this is a good thing!)

I'm going to toss you some Vivi pictures wherein a wild Juu appears via email!