Age For Castration

[Archer]

What is the earliest I can get my male castrated?

[dinahsmum]

The earliest your vet is happy to do it, I guess?

But seriously, I think 6 months is the usual. Some welfare places are doing kittens before they send them off to their new homes, so that is much earlier.

There are arguments for and against early neutering, and if I can find them easily I'll add an edit to previous discussion

Edit: Here's (http://www.catsey.com/showthread.php?t=13043) the thread. It's from over 2 years ago .... I really must get out more!)

[Moli]

3 of my boys were done at 4 months...will no ill effects at all..

[dandysmom]

Mine were all done at about 6 months.

[calismum]

Any boys I've had were done at 6 months. (Only my first was done later, poor student, didn't know any better, but he was a house cat.)

I know some vets will happily do from 4 months.

[Elvisisboss]

Elvis was done at 5 months i Think.

my vet said to me that 9 months is best. But i cant wait 9 months so when i phoned back they said 6 months is fine they wont do it before then so his booked in for 2 weeks time x :) (dont tell him!)

[pinklizzy]

We usually do male cats at 5-6 months, depending on how big they are!
The small pom-poms can be more fiddly to remove ;) although we do sometimes have farm cats in at 4 months.