Please don't wait too long to get your cat spayed!

I learned the hard way that getting my two female cats spayed at the age of 9 increased the risk of mammary cancer. That's what happened to my two. If only I had known that, I would have gotten it done much sooner!

I'm so sorry for your loss.

There are a lot of health risks that come with not getting female cats spayed. Unwanted kittens are just part of the problem.

We live and learn, huh?

When I got my youngest cat from the streets, I took her to get spayed about 6 months later because she would yowl and present almost all the time.  When I went to pick her up from the vet, she said that I was lucky because as they started the procedure they noticed that she had extremely large cysts on her ovaries.  She is a petite cat, around 7 lbs, and the cysts were the the size of an adult human's thumb.  She was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.

Spaying and neutering is incredibly important!  I'm sorry for the troubles that you've been having with your cats.

I'm really sorry what happened, and thank you for the warning.