• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    58·
    3 days ago

    Is it ok to remove cats’ testicles without their consent or dire medical need? Can’t we just give them eg a vasectomy if we want to sterilise them?

    • Estiar@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 days ago

      When cats go into heat, it really stresses them out a lot if they can’t do the deed. If they’re not going to be breeding, they should be neutered or spayed for the same reasons others have pointed out

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
      461·
      3 days ago

      Not spaying and neutering can cause behavioural issues (marking territory, aggression)if the pet goes through puberty. So it’s not just sterilisation.

      Make up your own mind on whether that makes it ok or not though.

      • Septimaeus
        7·
        2 days ago

        And it grants them a longer, healthier, and much happier life. If you can’t provide them mates to bonk and aren’t willing to help them raise their kids, the only ethical choices are to either (A) release them and hope they survive or (B) spay/neuter, because subjecting them to lifelong pon farr would be shitty.

        • CameronDev@programming.dev
          3·
          2 days ago

          I’m definitely pro spay and neuter personally. Another issue is unspayed female cats and dogs will have a period, and I dont think they’ll be very accepting of tampons and pads. My neighbour thought she was gonna breed her dog, so she didn’t spay it, and then basically had to follow around it cleaning up blood. She never bred anything either, she was a bit dim.

          • Patrikvo@lemmy.zip
            4·
            2 days ago

            personal entertainment slave

            Wait, decades wasted on pets and noone bothered to tell me I could have my own jester?

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      2 days ago

      we built or imported the roads, pollution, cars, invasive species and the pets themselves. To truly return to nature we’d have to find every cat and take them back to Africa/Asia, and probably exterminate 99% of dogs, and then return to pre-stone age living