I have had several cats and I have never had one of them do this. I am sorry but I think it is so funny!! Also I don't think it is normal.Quite funny!!!
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I have had several cats and I have never had one of them do this. I am sorry but I think it is so funny!! Also I don't think it is normal.Quite funny!!!
tuxluvr, just the mind picture of the "cat through the looking glass" :eek: is too, too funny :D And I thought MY guys were weird :p :p
laurie
Our Tinker spent her first Christmas in the Garage! (well...not all of it...but you get the idea)
She would be fine until dad came home from work then she would CALL to my dad, roll around to entice him, etc etc...Very funny but very annoying b/c she would NOT quit! And if he started talking to her, she would "assume the position." :o
LOL ..."ASSUME THE POSITION" exactly!! Hey I read a quote somewhere "If it didn't feel so good, none of us would be here!"
This topic is just toooo hilarious! :D :D
As for checking under the tail to be sure of neutering, that made me ponder . . . my ginger boy Meeshe is supposedly neutered, but he still has perfect cottonballs there . . . exactly WHAT is the procedure, and aren't the cottonballs supposed to look shriveled up or at least a little smaller?? :o I seem to remember previous neutered cats I've had with not much of anything protruding there after surgery . . . :confused: That was years ago, so maybe the surgical procedure has advanced to where the testicles are left intact and not at all deformed? Or . . . were my previous males butchered?!! :rolleyes:
Well, until I know for sure I got (or should I say Meeshe lost) what I paid for, I'm not going to be on the floor anytime soon when Meeshe is nearby! :eek:
Avajoy, in the "olden days" males were castrated, so there would be nothing left. Nowadays, the seminiferous tubes are removed but the scrotum remains intact, so the cotton balls are simply ballettes. It's safer as no stitches are required (in cats and small dogs) and the bleeding is minimal. If he were still intact, you would know it by his behavior!
Avajoy, with my first two cats, Sydney and Charlie, I took them to be neutered and I thought their "cotton balls" (lol!) looked smaller after the procedure.
Elvis and Danny were both already neutered when I adopted them, so I don't know what they looked like before. I guess they look kind of small, like with the first cats, but again, I wasn't sure so I decided to contact the lady from the shelter and ask her if she was sure that Elvis had been neutered. :rolleyes:
Saturday I was at the hairdresser and this woman and her mother were there. The had a cat in a carrier (daughter had found the cat and he was on his way to get snipped.)
Anyway, I got into a cat conversation with the mom who told me she had brother and sister cats.
Only problem is the brother will get on her lap and after a bit of kneading he gets aroused. OMG...I told her there had been just such a conversation thread on Pet Talk! She was relieved to know her cat's behavior was not totally weird.
The mirror image comment is hilarious! Thank goodness, neither of mine show any inclination towards that now. But when I had ShrimpBoat, she started going into heat often, and there I was with a cat I wasn't supposed to have in my apartment, and she would HOWL :eek: and when my fiance (and later husband) was there, she would climb on him and put her rear end right in his face!! :o It was horrible!!! But she LOVED him, only when she was in heat!!! LOL! I just knew I would come home to find every male cat in the city lined up on my balcony because of those mournful howls. We took care of that problem quickly, believe me!!!! :)
My Marius has those "cotton balls" too. I was thinking the same thing about having them completely removed because you can't see any remnants on my parent's male cat Socks, but I guess that's because my Marius got a different neuter procedure??
Ok, I have to add to these silly stories. My family's family dog, Misty (rainbow bridge) had a tendency to 'mount' the neutered male cat Socks every now and then, and my parents would get all disturbed and discourage that behavior. I just thought it wierd because Misty was FEMALE!!???!!! LOL LOL It was especially embarassing when guests were over...poor Socks would just try to slink away! :rolleyes: :eek: :o ;)
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Originally posted by Leah S:
<STRONG>Avajoy, in the "olden days" males were castrated, so there would be nothing left. Nowadays, the seminiferous tubes are removed but the scrotum remains intact, so the cotton balls are simply ballettes. It's safer as no stitches are required (in cats and small dogs) and the bleeding is minimal. If he were still intact, you would know it by his behavior!</STRONG>
Thanks for bringing me up to speed, Leah!
:) This poses another question: suppose a male rescue cat is presented to a vet, history unknown. Can the vet visually determine if he has already been neutered? Probably a silly question, but I am just curious. When I rescued Meeshe, I noticed his "package" and immediately assumed he was in need of neutering, but . . . I could have been wrong . . . his behavior has always been docile. Hmmmmm.
thanks avajoy.......I was wondering about that too. I rescued a male kitty over the weekend and he definately had the equipment, so I assumed he was not neutered. Now maybe I'm not sure.
My brother is a vet. Many years ago...when he was still in vet school... my mother wanted him to neuter her new male kitty. Albert was a little young for the surgery but my brother was heading back so it needed to be done. Fortunately I am not too sensitive as my brother began to neuter the cat on the kitchen table and I had not yet finished my breakfast.
The point of the story is to the question of whether parts are removed or just the vas cut. At least I can say how it was done 20 years ago. After he was done I noticed a couple of VERY small white balls in alcohol in one of my mother's salad dishes :eek: His explanation ...which I remember to this day... was "doctors don't clean up after themselves!"
Did you know you can actually PURCHASE little white gel balls (in different sizes) to implant into your cats and dogs who have been altered?!!! :eek:
I guess it was developed for show cats and dogs, whose owners did not want them to breed ... but I found it hilarious! :D
[ November 20, 2001: Message edited by: catwoman ]
Oh, great. Now they have implants for cat and dog testicles?? :rolleyes:
I will have LOTS of questions for my vet next time I visit. :confused:
I need to add a ;) here because I really DO trust my vet, and surely Meeshe WAS neutered, but . . . DARN! . . . he sure doesn't appear to be.
These posts are hysterical!! When Rascal popped into my backyard - there was no mistake that he was an unneutered male!!
We are talking golf balls.
He was reduced to cotton balls in one short visit.
He used to bite my hair all of the time and then one day - he just stopped doing it.
I was relieved because I never knew what he was up to.
These Orange guys - ya gotta watch them!!
yeah Gini, my orange boy had the golf balls too- you could tell he was a boy kitty from WAY across the room (and he has long hair)!
Now he does not even have cotton balls, they are more like.....grape sized. Poor kitty.
LOL LOL LOL
That's all I can say right now...LOL
hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee
This thread is so funny!! :)
If you think cats are bad, you should live with a house bunny!! Faith has two "boyfriends" (stuffed-animal balls) that she frequently mates with....she has just recently taken to...um...using BOTH of them at the same time!! Jeesh! :o :rolleyes: :o
Faith! A menage a trois ! Oh, you bad, bad girl! :o ;)
Sooooo funny, Leah! :D :D
wink-wink! ;) ;) ;)
Sophie has only tried to umm...mate with something once in her life--my arm! :o
But I guess it was my fault, I had her in bed cuddling her... :rolleyes:
That was in the pre-spay days--haven't had any attempts since she was fixed.
So bazzzzar - implants for private parts in the animal world, now I've heard everything :D :D
Leah, You have it correct...it is really embaressing when people come over and we have to run to get her "boyfriends" out of there!! :o
Sophie! You are too funny! I guess they go to who they love! :) hee hee :o