by Paul Robinson » Tue Nov 21, 2017 7:47 pm
pinback wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:59 am
There is absolutely zero justification for not spaying/neutering.
Oh, I can think of one. Princess, the extremely beautiful calico cat we brought with us from California, was a fairly large cat. Not fat, just well proportioned, and
fast.
Anyway, over the years a running gag in our family was my mother claiming Princess was pregnant. For eight years running.
I have a story about our large cat collection but I can't find it so I'll post it later. Point was, Princess never got pregnant so I had a pretty good idea why. We later moved to Washington, D.C. and lived over on the Southwest quadrant, across the street from a shopping center that later became the Waterfront Station on Metrorail. One time I was walking along the path from our townhouse to the street when I hear a noise in the bushes. I go to look and I discover Princess being fucked by another cat.
This confirmed what I had suspected, and a couple years later when I was taking Princess to the vet for shots, he happens to ask if Princess had been spayed. I hadn't had it done (for the reason below) and I didn't think my sister had, but I said to him, "It doesn't matter, she's a freemartin." As this is a rare condition he didn't know what that word meant, and so I told him, "That's an animal that's born sterile."
So there I present a legitimate (although rare) justification for not spaying an animal. When you discover the animal was born a freemartin.
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There is absolutely zero justification for not spaying/neutering.[/quote]
Oh, I can think of one. Princess, the extremely beautiful calico cat we brought with us from California, was a fairly large cat. Not fat, just well proportioned, and [i]fast.[/i]
Anyway, over the years a running gag in our family was my mother claiming Princess was pregnant. For eight years running.
I have a story about our large cat collection but I can't find it so I'll post it later. Point was, Princess never got pregnant so I had a pretty good idea why. We later moved to Washington, D.C. and lived over on the Southwest quadrant, across the street from a shopping center that later became the Waterfront Station on Metrorail. One time I was walking along the path from our townhouse to the street when I hear a noise in the bushes. I go to look and I discover Princess being fucked by another cat.
This confirmed what I had suspected, and a couple years later when I was taking Princess to the vet for shots, he happens to ask if Princess had been spayed. I hadn't had it done (for the reason below) and I didn't think my sister had, but I said to him, "It doesn't matter, she's a freemartin." As this is a rare condition he didn't know what that word meant, and so I told him, "That's an animal that's born sterile."
So there I present a legitimate (although rare) justification for not spaying an animal. When you discover the animal was born a freemartin.