Lo estaba haciendo mal con mis gatos y no lo sabía | #Storytime de un veterinario

Today I'm going to tell you about some moments in my life with my cats where I've had a really bad time. But I think it's important for you to understand why I insist so much on telling you that you shouldn't let your cats out of the house. Hi, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian at Small Animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Okay, I know I'm a real pain in the ass when it comes to telling you not to let your cats out of the house. But the thing is, if I keep repeating myself so much, it's not just because I'm a veterinarian and have seen real dramas in my practice of cats that have been bitten by dogs or cats that have been run over, but also because I've had to experience very unpleasant experiences with many of the cats I've lived with. Because now you see that I'm very aware of this issue. But they don't teach you this kind of thing in college. We've had cats in my house for as long as I can remember. And in the 90s when I was little, fortunately, the sensitivity people had towards pets living with this was very different from what it is today. And back then things weren't done very well. The issue of castration was something that was. Well, they could control their own birth control freely. And of course we also thought that they could come and go freely from home because in the outside world they knew how to take good care of themselves. Because cats are very smart animals and there's no danger to them outside either. Oh, there's so much we still have to learn. But anyway, I'm rambling on as always. That's why today I'm here to tell you the story of my cats, Bonito, Kopito, Defix and Lunita. So that you can understand why I'm so committed to not letting your cats out of the house. Well, let's start with Benito's story. I was about six or seven years old. The truth is that I don't remember very well because I was very, very young. Benito was a cat who was always on the street in my grandparents village. And he was a very, very affectionate cat who would approach anyone. He was a huge cat. He was like a kind of tiger. He was tabby, but he was gray. And the truth is that he was a very good cat, very affectionate. When we adopted him, he was more or less 6 years old or so. Well, I know that now, I didn't know it then. And he was a Cat that we felt very sorry for because he was suffering hardships on the street. He was always alone, he got wet when it rained, or that no one would feed him. Then my mother suddenly came to my brother and me with the news. Hey, do you want us to adopt? Well, back then it wasn't adopting, it was picking up. Hey, do you want us to take this cat and take it home so it can live with us? And so on. And what do we think of them? For a six or seven year old child and another child who is almost 10, adopting a pet is their greatest aspiration. We had cats before, when I was much younger, I think I was about three years old or so. We had a kitten named Sonja, who was black, but I honestly don't know what happened to that kitten. I don't know if she lived until she died with this or not. I only remember her very vaguely and so well. When we were given the opportunity to adopt a new cat and take it home with us, we were over the moon. As you may have seen in other videos, we live in a house with a fairly large garden. And of course my parents understood that it would be best for the cat who was used to living on the street, to have free access to the garden, to be able to climb trees and to come and go whenever he wanted, so that he would adapt much better to our home. And that's what they did. But one day a neighbor who lived three or four houses down from mine came to my house, knocked on the door and asked my father if the cat was his and that he didn't like it when it went into his garden and played with his kitten. Because the cat went into his garden. Yes, of course the cat went out freely, but it always went to his garden. Well, of course he had a kitten that wasn't neutered, and my cat was driven by hormones. Therefore he went to the garden where the cat was. Obviously my father apologized to him, but of course, since they both had cats that weren't neutered, it's normal for nature to take its course. And my father couldn't control his cat outside the house either. I do know that it would have been much easier if we had kept each of our cats locked up inside our houses. But, well, that wasn't the case. That was it. And it didn't get any worse or anything like that. One day my brother and I came home from school and suddenly we started looking for Bonito in the garden, because we were really surprised that he hadn't come to greet us. At the door, because, as I told you before, the cat was very, very affectionate. And whenever we came through the door, he would throw us a huge party. Well, we started looking in the garden, My garden. Well, you know, it's quite big. We walked around there a couple of times. We didn't find anything. And suddenly we went to the stairs that go down to the basement from the garden, and we found him there. We found him dead there. Someone had killed him and thrown him over the garden wall to die inside our house. And, of course, imagine the drama that was going on in my house at that time, because I was a very, very young child and so was my brother. My mother had also gone to pick us up from school, so the timing was completely calculated. So that when they sent the cat away, we wouldn't be home. But when we returned, we would find it. My mother hadn't even been able to clean up that mess because, well, it was all covered in dirt because it had been shot. And of course, I mean, I still have that image in my head because it was an indescribable feeling. Imagine my brother and me on those steps, paralyzed. I felt tremendous rage because I didn't understand how a person could kill a cat that hadn't done anything to it. But you understood at that moment that it was a person who had killed it, or what did you understand? Right. Sure. I didn't know exactly what had happened, But I found my cat in a pool of blood. And that was a very shocking image. But then suddenly, well, that's it. And, well, you might be wondering, how did we know that the neighbor had killed our cat? Well, my father didn't have to do much research because first he warned me that he didn't want me to play with his cat. And then the trail from where my cat had died to my house pointed directly to his. In other words, he had come from his house with my cat practically dead and thrown it over the wall of my garden. All the arrows pointed to him. And what happened between your father and him? I don't know. Was there some kind of confrontation? No, no, there wasn't any kind of confrontation. And, well, I don't want to speak too badly of that person, because he died shortly after. And fortunately, he couldn't do it to any other cat. What surprises me is that this man who had a cat would do that to another cat because he wanted to save his cat, who was also a purebred kitten, from my cat, who was a common stray cat. But, hey, he also had his cat free and loose in his garden. So he knew what she really had. His cat was an animal and so was mine. And hormones get to him. And if his cat wanted to be with my cat, it must have been because he had seen something good in my cat, I suppose. But hey, you learn from everything. And what I took away from this is that there are bad people in the world who can harm pets, animals, when they are freely on the streets. And that we had to be much more careful. And in fact, this was something we began to take much more into account with our next cats. There were more, right? Yes, there were more. Bonito lived with us for about a year, a year and a half. A few months later, about half a year or so later. Then came Snowflake. They all end up with snowflakes, right? Well, not all of my cats end in. In Ito, but it happened there because Kopito was white. He was a white cat. And so we called him Kopito, after Snowflake, the gorilla who lived in the Barcelona Zoo. I was already around 9 or 10 years old at the time. Honestly, I don't remember very well. I've already told you about Kopito in another video on the channel. He's been to several places on the channel. Well, yes, and. Well, he was a cat who was known for being a great hunter. He had the eyesight of a lynx that I couldn't resist. The only thing he managed to catch in the garden in his entire life was a snail that he brought to us as his biggest trophy. But anyway, he was very endearing. He was a very good cat, and he was also a very big cat. He lived with us for many years, but he was a cat who also came and went from our house whenever he wanted. He spent almost more time outside my house than inside. Kopito also lived with another cat that we had a little later, when Kopito was already around six years old, named Luna. The thing is that Kopito wasn't neutered and he always wanted to go outside. And since the neighbor who had killed Bonito had also passed away, we didn't think it was that dangerous for him to go out and do cat things. Also, as I said before, in those days, animal awareness and awareness that your cats had to be neutered weren't that important. There weren't any YouTuber veterinarians who were always nagging you about what you had to do to keep your cats healthy. Back then, that was seen as the most normal thing in the world. The cat would come and go from the house and live his life well like a normal, everyday cat. Now that I think about it, it seems ridiculous and super irresponsible. First, because the cat will be mating with other cats in the neighborhood and bringing cats into the world come and go and come and go without any kind of control. And also because going out into the street also exposes them to a lot of dangers, not only with other people, but also with other animals. Because, for example, in the case of Snowflake, he would fight a lot because of the heat issue. He would always come home bruised, always with his head scratched with bites here and there. Imagine what it would be like if your cat entered through the kitchen cat flap and you found him in the morning with his head pink precisely from the bites and scratches that other cats had given him. In addition, Snowflake had an arch enemy in the neighborhood called the Blood Sausage Cat. Oh, I just remembered him well, he was a cat as big as Snowflake, but in this case, he was a Siamese, kind of dark in color. And we called him the Blood Sausage Cat because when he met Snowflake, he would always bristle up and his tail would get really, really fat, as if he were a blood sausage. And that's why my brother, my father, my mother and I called him that. The thing is that he didn't get along with Snowflake, the Blood Sausage Cat, at all. I understand this because he would get into our house and steal our food. Too many times you would go into the kitchen and the Blood Sausage Cat would run out the door because he saw you were down. And, well, at least he would confront us. Also, another thing that Snowflake, my white cat, loved to do, as I'm telling you, was get inside car engines, because in Placentia, where I'm from, it's usually quite cold in the winter. And so the cats would get inside the car engine to take shelter. Sure, they come out covered in grease up to their ears, and a white, black, brown, or other indescribable colored cat. Well, what did you have to do with it? A lot. You had to bathe it. My mother had to fight with the cat. The cat would spread its legs, fighting with my mother, my mother trying to get it into the bathtub. It was also a drama and stress for him because he didn't like water. And on top of all this, with the bites and scratches he had on his head and other parts of his body, my mother would also spend the whole day chasing him with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and the bottle of Betadine, trying to heal him so that his wounds wouldn't get infected. Something he didn't have a good time with either. Because he also complained when my mother healed him on that side. He also suffered a lot from going outside. Not only because of the other cats biting him, but also because my mother had to treat him, or because he had to be bathed much more often to maintain hygiene. All bad. Well, he had a life on the street and was happy, as we thought back then. But there is also something very important. A cat that goes outside and has contact with other cats is also exposed to a lot of diseases, which fortunately, I am aware of today, but which I was a child and didn't care much about back then, such as leukemia, immunodeficiency and so on. Kopito could also have contracted those diseases and that could have caused problems for his health. The truth is, I don't know because. Well, because there was no research on that. Of course, he didn't have as much control as he should have, right? No. How great. What a great example, Carlos. Well, I was 10 years old then, and you can see what kind of example I can give you when I was 10 years old. But anyway, Kopito lived with this for a very long time. He lived healthy, apparently happy, dewormed, of course, and vaccinated from time to time. I don't remember, like 13 or 14 years with us a lot. Let's say Kopito didn't die because of going out, right? Kopito didn't die because of going out into the street, but rather because he encountered the dangers of having to fight with the territoriality of other cats. When Kopito was already around 13 or 14 years old, one day he suddenly stopped coming home. You know what they say, right? That when cats are feeling very bad and they see that their time is coming, they move away from their family to die in peace. Well, or maybe it's because the cat was already very old and suddenly found himself in some kind of situation that he couldn't solve. And, well, that's also where he could have died. Nobody will know. And this is something that if I didn't understand clearly with Kopito, I definitely learned my lesson with Eidfuss. With Eidfuss, I was already around 20 years old and, well, I already knew what life was about, and I already had a bit more of an idea. Well, the ones you can have at 20. Of course, I was also already studying veterinary medicine. So you also see these types of things when you're studying your degree you also get to know more about cat health and so on. And well, that also helps, of course. Along with Defies, Luna still lived with us, whom I've already told you about before, who lived with us for many years, and who was also Defix's mother. From the litter that it fix came out of, there was also another very, very pretty kitten, a little bit more and so on, who went to live with a cousin of my mother's in the village with her. And why do you tell me that? And I'll tell you that because it will be important later. Keep my mother's cousin's cat. I don't have any photos of Defies because it was the pre mobile era. But anyway, he was more or less what you know, as Snowy. The thing is that Idfys was a little bigger, a little fatter, but he was a cow cat who was also very, very good. He always approached people and was always looking for a little affection. And it was precisely because of that black and white color that Defix had that we decided to give him that name. Because I don't know if you know that Obayx's dog is called Edifice, and well, he's practically white with only black ears. But anyway, we liked that name for the cat, and that's why we gave him that. We were going to castrate Defies because we had already learned with Snowflake that it wasn't a good idea for the cat to be going in and out of the house, to be out there like a thug looking for a fight in the street, and to always come home bruised. And we also thought that if we castrated him, he would spend much more time in our garden and wouldn't want to leave the house as much as. And therefore he would be much more protected. But he still had direct and free access to the garden whenever he wanted. He could come and go without any problem. As I say, Idfuss was a very affectionate cat, and I don't think he was very smart. He got very close to people and wasn't afraid of almost anyone. When the time came for us to castrate him around 5 months old or so, he started to get curious and started going out into the garden looking for other cats. Looking for other cats. So since I was already a little more aware of the issue of castration and the issue of animal protection and so on, because I was already studying veterinary medicine, I told my parents, dad, we can't delay this any longer because the cat's hormones will kick in and he'll try to discover what's beyond the garden. Well, I also tried to encourage them to do it as quickly as possible. And when we were going to do it, suddenly one day the cat stopped coming home, and we never heard from him again. And of course, when Kopito, who was already 13 or 14 years old, stopped coming home, well, we thought it was the natural cycle of things, that he would leave, that he would move away from the family, to die without being inside the house, and so on. But of course, with idfis, that couldn't be, because the cat was only five or six months old when he stopped coming back. So something must have happened to IFIs. IDFYs must have come across a dog that attacked him, he must have gone somewhere he couldn't get out of, or, well, who knows what. The truth is that at that moment you start to wonder, what are we doing wrong with cats? Why do they leave our house and not come back? Of course, looking back on it now, and from today's perspective, we. I already know what we were doing wrong. We were letting them out without any supervision. And cats don't understand the fences in your garden. Cats also climb perfectly and can get out without any problem. Cats are also curious animals that will be very interested in what's beyond your house, and that's why they'll always want to go out and explore it. And now do you understand me when I tell you these things in the videos, that you shouldn't let them out because in the end there are many risks for them. Of course, that's much easier to see in someone else. Sometimes when we're trying to transmit it to ourselves, we. We can't, because we think we're doing the best for the cat and that the cat is completely happy coming and going and living a cat's life. And then after this, which we didn't expect, because the cat was very, very young and, well, he was a very good cat and didn't stray far from home or anything like that. We decided by consensus as a family, because I already had a say and so did my brother, that we weren't going to let the cats out of the house anymore, that they were always going to be neutered, always under control, because it couldn't be that just because we thought the cat was going to be happier outside, he had to face a lot of dangers and perhaps one day he would never come home again. But this unfair things to all of.

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To all of Argentina, to everyone, to.

Those who have cats, to those who don't. To those who love me and to those who don't. To everyone. What's up? And Emma Bojo has introduced us to this little thing. Please. He's tiny. His name is Cyrus. And, well, it seems that we have a reading cat because he likes to be there choosing books or chewing on them.

I've read those books. Oh, yes? Which ones are they? Oh, not me. Me. We have them at home.

Yes. Noah Gordon's doctor, the shaman, and Dr. Cole. And, well, to finish, Artarito Perez sends us greetings from Colombia, from Bogota. Look at Artarito's face.

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Yes, her name is Lola. Hey, I really like that bed, huh? It must be very, very warm. He probably spends a lot of time in there. And, well, as I've already told you, you know where to go if you want us to meet your cat family and, yes, also canine family. See you next week.

And first of all, about the parallel thing.

Oh, it's true that. I don't know if you know that we have a parallel channel on YouTube where we ask questions and answers to a veterinarian. Well, you ask the questions and I give you the answers. They are very, very short videos where we answer very specific questions that you ask us. If you want, go to it and subscribe. And that way you'll always be up to date with all the questions that you ask us on the YouTube channel, on our Instagram, and also on the Facebook group.

It's called Questions and Answers from a Veterinarian, which I've already mentioned. Oh, look for it and don't miss it until next week. I'll. Now, today we're going to do a story. No, a story, Tori. I'm not going to be too explicit in the language because YouTube, which is our God, doesn't censor videos. And that's not the plan. Because if we then. And maybe you now leave it outside the house, you better leave it inside. Okay. You can't see my face there because a bug has come at me. You say it. Move, move. Get out. Get out, get out. Don't record it. What do you call that? Phobia? Change of location. Change.orgChange of location. No. Yes. Well, no. It's just that the sun is going to shine on us again, right? Well, the thing is. Oh, the sun is already shining on my face. It's going to be like this all the time. Right now I think there will be less sun there, but of course. Come on, let's go. What a shame there aren't any photos of all this right? Of course. It's just that we don't take photos so much that it's like we're from a Maasai tribe that thinks they're stealing their souls. Let's go back here. It's down here where there are fewer. Jose, when we release this video, we're going to have to make a cool tree on Instagram or something so people don't miss me. What a memory. Oh, the blood sausage cat. I hadn't remembered the blood sausage cat.