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Did everyone end up getting all their cats fixed? Over 50 a day 365 days a year are put to sleep here in ONE COUNTY where I live. It’s becuase people don’t bother to spay/neuter and end up with litters that automatically guarantee that the cats in shelters waiting for homes don’t get one.

Well my incident with the cat and kittens was yay many moons ago when I was a young thing and my breasts didn’t sag.

I will say this, I have four cats now and they are ALL spayed and/or neutered. My dog is also spayed.

The cat what had kittens on my bed, she was indoor cat. Of course there waaaaasss that one time she got out and I found her standing on a drain pipe surrounded by a bevy of male cats all of them salivating and licking their lips.

Heh.

I THOUGHT I got to her before the male cats did but, alas, the kittens birthed in the bed proved me wrong.

Heh.

My cat was a purebred show cat with a pedigree longer than the First Families of Virginia. The kittens were all sold to good homes, except the one I kept (he made his Championship). She was spayed after her 2nd or 3rd litter, I think, because we had perpetuated that bloodline, and because she got in the habit of having one kitten at a time (thought she was a human I guess) and it got expensive dividing a hefty stud fee by one instead of 4 or 5!

But I agree with you that folks who don't have a reason to produce kittens ought to spay their queens.

Ditto for dogs -- although I made a horrible mistake spaying my Chocolate Lab bitch too soon. She turned out to be an incredible performance dog in 3 different disciplines -- obedience, agility, and hunting retriever. Look at all them ribbons (she's won about 10 more since, and acquired two more titles).

She also is smallish (Labs IMHO are getting too big), very healthy at 6 years old now with good teeth, perfect hips, good eyes, and a wonderful temperament. People ask all the time at the hunting club and the agility club if I'm breeding her and if they can have a puppy -- and there's a beautiful Choc in our hunting club who is the All Time High Point Retriever in UKC (something like 6,000 points), and the pups would have been dynamite!

We won't make that mistake with our 2nd Lab - a little black girl just 10 months old now. (We'll make some OTHER mistake, I'm sure.)

I have been trying to remember what happened to our Mama Cat. She is the only cat we had who did not get fixed at the appropriate time. She had been a stray kitten. We moved, and she was right at the age I thought she should be for spaying. The next thing I knew, she was pregnant by the many tomcats that roamed that neighborhood. I think she died right after she weaned her kittens. We think the tomcats were carrying one of those killer cat diseases. We had multiple stray cats die in our yard over the next few years. We decided that we would not have any more cats unless we could afford all of the medical care that they would need. Our last kitty was well taken care of until we moved across the country. She was unhappy with our move, and she disappeared. Makes me so sad to think about it.