[LMB] OT: caring for pets was Squickiest LMB Moment

[Alex Haropulos]

Margaret I Carr wrote:
> Spayed or neutered cats definitely have less motivation to roam. No
> raging hormones driving them. Of course, personalities differ, and some
> are born wanderers regardless, but cats that I have lived with who were
> fixed mostly were homebodies. The ones fixed young, before the hormones
> started, were the most stable, and the Tom kittens didn't start spraying
> either!
>   
I tried owning an un-neutered male cat once. I will never do this again. 
He got into fights, was bitten, wounded, and died about a block from our 
home trying to defend an expanded territory. I tried repeatedly to 
convince him that our (hedge-enclosed yard) was his territory, But, when 
you're a foot tall and full of adolescent hormones, who you gonna believe?

It tore my heart out when he was killed. He was the finest cat that ever 
breathed. I wish that I had had a huge high-fenced compound in which he 
could have roamed unmenaced.

Males got this testosterone thing, like Miles.

Okay, so do us females, and no, we would not neuter our male children. 
But, as Cordelia noted, you give birth and then you are part of the Kali 
cycle.

Alex H.
Who misses Conrad every day. He had the heart of a lion, and a sunny 
temperament.