Cat State of Health

Always that you acquire a cat, it is important to know if he has been vaccinated against the most dangerous diseases as is the feline flu and in some countries also the rabies.

The adequate age to vaccinate them for the first time is at two months; after you have to vaccinate them once a year during all their life.

It's the breeders or sellers responsibility to deliver to the new owner the date certificates of vaccinations done and the dates of the vaccines which are due.

When the cat is adult and you don't have this information, the best is to go to the veterinary for advice.

Anyway, the most sensible is to take the cat to the veterinary before taking any decision to adopt him.

Also, when buying a kitten from a neighbor or a breeder. And when the cat is adult and you can't precise its age, don't doubt in visiting the specialist for him to deduce his real age by inspecting its denture.

Cat Sterilization
Males reach sexual maturity in between the sixth and eight months of age and the females, two months before. For then, they should be already sterilized, unless you have the intention of breeding.

When a female cat is in heat, she mews a lot and has continuous chances of temper, and can even urinate by the corners.

The males also leave urine marks of a disgusting odor and sometimes they behave in an aggressive way.

By sterilizing them you not only eliminate this type of problems and the risk of pregnancies, but it also makes cats more affable house creatures, but more reticent from escaping. The myth that sterilized cats are the worst hunters is false; their hunting instinct is not bound to the sexual nature.

Another false myth is the one that advices that females should get pregnant and have kittens at least once before getting operated, but there is no prove this will benefit her in any way, medical or psychologically.

Veterinarians say that it is not true that sterilized cats are given to suffer from urinary or any type of problems; in fact, the statistics show that sterilized cats live longer, although, for more than pure medical reasons, this is because they tend to wander less outside their home territory.

The surgical intervention usually takes place before the animal reaches its full sexual maturity.

So much on males as on females, the operation takes only a few minutes and the convalescence periods is of a few days, usually at home. The operation on adult cats is also simple.