To Spay or Not To Spay

This is a question many cat owners answered long ago and feel quite comfortable about it.

However, there are two things I'd like you to think about.

The first one is about pets being an image of the owners. If you take a closer look at your friends and their pets, you will definitely notice some resemblance in their ways and habits. Just like children mimic their parents' behaviour and never question it, so do our pets. And if you see that a cat or a dog has some negative features that you have never seen in their masters, don't blame the animals: you just saw the people who adapt their actions to suit the social conventions and environment, like smiling and saying nice things and having perfect table manners in public. Their real selves are only observed by their pets who imitate them in public since they don't care about our conventions. And do almost as crazy things as we do.

It isn't amazing that pets especially those as intelligent as cats just pick up our ways and habits and do things that normal animals would never dream of doing. Something like watching TV, playing computer games (you can see it on one of the pages), or just going to the bathroom:

You are with me, right? In the wild, animals do not have sex as we see it. They have it to proCREATE new life. We call it a mating season or something like that. Yet it is an undeniable fact: they are wiser than we are. They only indulge in intimate relations with the purpose of creating new life, not for fun.

A remarkable exception are domestic animals.

Thus if the owners are constantly preoccupied with thinking about sex, their pets get on their wavelength and feel the same. If you are in harmony with the universe and don't want to do something that will never give you ultimate satisfaction, then your cats will be the same. They will have their natural cycle when they want to have kittens, and restrain from it at other times.

I know a lady who told me about her cat, a gorgeous-looking fluffy beauty. She had kittens once, and later never allowed any male approach her though many friends of her owner would have loved to have her kittens. And I should say her owner is a woman of integrity with a sunny personality. She lost her husband and felt terrible with only a 3-year-old son and her cat to keep her company. She was so devoted to her late husband that she gave up personal life for the sake of her son. After he grew up and went to university, the woman found a partner she is living with now. Her cat had died before that at the age of 12, never allowing any Tom approach her with intimate proposals. Now the woman has another she-cat, round-faced, white, somewhat chumpy, who is always around the woman's partner and is perpetually pregnant. Besides, she made friends with a gray rat that occasionally gets into their kitchen and shares her food with it. Voila. Do you know any other story like that? Please, send it in.

The second question is about your responsibility. By spaying or deballing your pets you deprive them of the most beautiful feeling in the world - that of parenthood. Can you really see what happiness it is?

Have you felt the incredible joy when some tinny voice would call you Mummy or Daddy? You haven't? Then go back to another page or see the Japanese site for some cute pics.

Yet if you feel you can read some of the stuff, go on to Deballing?