Kitty-Boy is off to be de-bollocked on friday!

[SheelaNeGoldGig]

Is it unreasonable for me to be very nervous and sad? Or am I being far too PFK?

Poor little chap is blissfully unaware and is currently on my lap sucking his tail.

He's going to hate me forever .

Mine was up and biting my toes the next morning at 7am.

It'll be ok, he'll be so pleased to see you when you come back to get him. Plus you have all weekend to attend to his every whim while he tries to break out of the cat flap.

And no food from 10pm?????

He won't be happy. He's a growing boy who like to be fed at least every 2 hours.

Just a tad PFK, Sheela.

He'll be uncomfortable for a day or so and then he won't remember it. Or your part in it.

I've always thought the worst part of it is watching them staggering around after coming home - trying to 'walk off' the GA and stay alert for enemies. You can't reason with them. At least when they do finally sleep they sleep for hours.

And no food from whenever. Just say No to him when he yells for it. You'll get a bit of a sulk but he'll get on with life again shortly thereafter.

Oh - and Well Done for getting it done. Too many people don't bother.

Been trying to work up the courage fit it in for a month. Needed to find a time when i'd be off for a few days to mollycoddle him.

Lots of mollycoddling on Saturday, that's right. Little taste treats and kisses.

(I wouldn't bother on Friday - he'd be best just left in a quiet place to sleep it off.)

Our older boy was over it within a few hours, whereas his sister pulled her stitches out twice and ended up in the horrid collar. No 2 boy hasn't got to that stage yet and is lying here purring and reading every word I type......

Our hand reared kitty (now a bouncing 3 yo) had his bits off and within about 1 hour of coming home was sauntering about as if nothing had happened. We thought he'd need a day or so to recover, but he was, outwardly totally unaffected. There really is very little to it for boy cats - girls are a different matter, obviously - and usually the fact that they are hungry overrides any other discomfort!

Poor poor kitty-boy.

He's asking for his eleventh supper and doesn't understand why i won't open the fridge.

And i can't find the sodding cat box. Been years since i used it last.

Hope you found the box and that everything goes well. He should be back almost before you know it.

Found the box and scrubbed it.

Kitty-Boy is OUTRAGED he has not been givrn breakfast.

Poor baby.

Ah well - all over by this evening.

Wibble

Hes giving the box some very suspicious looks.

Great instinct, cats. I have to take the box downstairs the night before if my senior boy is going to the vet the next day - so that he can get over his hissy fit when he sees it. (Although these days, he's more resigned than anything else. He realizes, I think, that going to the vets is some strange obsession that Mummy has and he'd better just go along with it and get it over.)

I don't think the vet nurse understood the gravity of the occasion. Awfully blasé.

I know - you get a 'Just put him down over there' and then they go back to the paperwork on the desk. She probably has 20 animals a week or more for neutering so doesn't think anything of it - but you (I've been there) feel that you ought to be given a cup of coffee and have your hand held for 10 minutes!

If it's any consolation, that will likely bear no relation to the care and attention they give them once the op is over. Beforehand, there's not a lot they can do but leave them sitting quietly. Afterwards - well I've heard vet nurses positively cooing to my boys in their cages behind the scenes when they thought they weren't being overheard. (I have exceptional hearing.) And every time I phone up for repeat meds for the senior boy, I pretty well have to give a blow by blow of how he's been over the previous fortnight.

It should be fine. Go and do some scrubbing sort of housework and it'll be time before you know it.

I sobbed all the way home when ours was done.

He's home! Very hungry and a bit bemused.

It was weird at the vet though. They didn't comment on his kitty perfection or say he was the nicest kitty they'd ever met or anything.

how very dare they not notice he is feline perfection personified!

Male cats barely notice when their knackers are removed, it's much more invasive for the females. He'll be feeling more out of sorts from the GA than anything else. When I worked at a vets some of the older vets used to tell horror stories of farm cats being shoved head first into wellies to be castrated without anaesthetic

I remember going to the vet once (different town, different boy) and being unreasonably proud when I noticed 'Temperament - Good' on his notes. I pretty well preened!

He may be hungry but I wouldn't give him too much in case he's sick. (GAs last a good many hours.) A small portion of wet glop and a small bowl of water for this evening and no more until full food tomorrow Don't worry if he still complains because he'll likely be out like a light snoring in a few hours.

Glad he's fine.