Originally Posted by
jckkerrison
Sebaceous glands are in other areas of cats as well as the tail,areas around the head such as chin & lips,kittens that rub their head round furniture,your legs etc are actually releasing sebum to mark their territory but the reaction isn't the same,you never get a phone call to say "My cats territory marking by rubbing its face along the carpet,best get its balls off before it starts spraying"so why a sudden panic when the same starts the other end....? A lot of kittens get feline acne round the chin& that is when the hormones start becoming more active & sometimes due to excessive sebum produced they get blocked,hence the appearance of teenage spots & some need ab's to settle it all down but actually by having the cat neutered at the point of stud tail appearing doesn't always stop it occuring in either males or females,my only one that I had castrated at 6mths, & would not have one done that early again for the reason I posted earlier in this thread,still had stud tail at 4 years old,it is only in the last couple of years that it has completely resolved,my two boys that were not done until after they were a year had a short spell of it once at about 7mths.Like us they all differ in their growing patterns & as said before if the worse happens to you then you are going to think one way or if like me you have never had a problem then there is no reason to get them done that early.I still think that as our breed doesn't mature as early as the domestic or smaller breed of cat then that part doesn't mature so quickly either,in the last four weeks I know of two people who have got 10mth + stud boys who didn't know what to do when a female was present,would that happen in amoungst the domestic population,I don't think so but makes you wonder if it is proof that some of the MC's do need a bit longer to get to know what it is all about,my friends boy is 11mth, 10kg lives in with the girls & he ran to tell his mum this nasty girl keeps putting her bottom in my face & I don't like it,help please,her neutered boy hopped on the girl & said look at me this is the way to do it,that has caused a few titters amoungst us all....
The choice has got to be what you are comfortable with,my breeder did give me permission to leave my last two longer because of issues that I had with one of them & even at their older age I had no spraying or any hint of them smelling like a tom,could have been lucky because there was no whole female to influence them but at that point one of them had become the dominant male of the pack & that alone made me wonder if I might have to get him done before his brother but no everything was fine.....