Thanks very much.
We once had an adult male show up at our door - he had a collar and bell on him, and I knew he had belonged to someone.
Spent weeks putting up signs, trying to find an owner; but no responses. We think he had just been abandoned. In the meantime, we had him neutered, de-flea-ed, got him shots, etc.
In the end, we kept him. We had no idea how old he was when we got him, but we had him for about 17 years. He died in September; and he was our last cat from our previous bunch.
The point is: because he was neutered after adulthood, he was always a little wild, and always tried to beat up (to put it discreetly) on our little female cat.
I think it matters when a male cat was neutered, as to how he’ll be as an older cat.
-JT
My daughter picked out our younger guy. She saw him being born and got him neutered as soon as the vet said it was ok. I don’t recall how old he was, but probably only a few weeks. He was socialized with people from the start and came to our house when maybe 3 or 4 months old and introduced to the girl. At the start, she would cuddle with him, but that lasted maybe 6 months or so. Then he discovered the fun in terrifying her.
Not necessarily. We've had kittens neutered at 6 or 7 months and we've had adult males show up who were who-knows-how-old when we had them neutered. We have a few who still get "frisky" with the girls (all spayed) and they were neutered at different ages. Not sure what determines whether or not they'll give up on the idea.