¿Por qué mi gato sigue haciendo ESO después de la castración? 🥝😾

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Hi, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian in small animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. You're not the first note, nor the second, nor will you be the last person to approach me and ask me if their cat is properly neutered. It's happened to me a lot, both in the office and here in the comments on the YouTube channel. Many people come to me and say, I think that even though my cat has had surgery, something has been left inside him because he still has the same behaviors as before he was neutered. When you're going to neuter your cat, you think that all of his heat behaviors are going to disappear. But as I always say, this is medicine, and not everything is black or white. Sometimes they disappear completely. But there is a percentage of cats that, even after being operated on, still retain some of their heat behaviors. That's why I wanted to make this video, so that if this is happening to your cat, you don't have to worry. Let's see what can happen and how you can help your cat to get rid of that attitude. As I've told you before on the channel, when we castrate a cat, we remove the testicles. I say this quietly so that YouTube doesn't demonetize my video. And in females, we remove the ovaries. Well, I don't know if the ovaries will be demonetized or not, but it's the same. So that there are no sex hormones, and therefore the attitudes of heat mostly disappear. The thing is that sometimes this doesn't happen. But of course, there are also times when you bring me the cat to the consultation to have it castrated and you want me to turn it into a different cat, and that's it. Hey, I'm not referring to the fact that if your male or female cat is playful, mischievous, don't think that castration is going to eliminate that type of attitude, because that's part of the cat's personality, the aggressiveness. This also happens a lot when an animal is aggressive. There are people who bring them to the clinic and tell you, no, I'm coming to castrate them, because they're very aggressive and that'll stop their aggressiveness. That's not going to happen because if the cat needs to somehow redirect that aggressiveness, castration won't stop it. It's clear that castration will help them because the issue of sex hormones can be very destabilizing, but it's not a panacea for us. First of all, I'm going to make two general points that you may be ignoring. The first one is that not only male cats mark, but and the second one is that marking is not always related to heat because contrary to what many people think, female cats also mark. And now your head is exploding because you've only seen male cats mark around in heat. And that's because male cats are much more territorial when they are in heat. What they do is mark different areas with their urine so that other male cats know that this territory is forbidden, that the female cats in it belong to that male. That's nature, the patriarchy of the cat. However, some females who are also territorial can mark, especially when some type of new object appears in their environment. For example, you just bought a sofa and suddenly the cat marks it because she wants to recognize it as part of her home. Related to this, I'm going to tell you an anecdote, because if I didn't tell an anecdote, it wouldn't be my video. Here's the guy with the Once a very angry lady came to my office. She wanted to sue her regular veterinary clinic because she told me that they hadn't neutered her cat properly, that they had neutered him like four years ago or so, and he had started marking again. He was marking like crazy in her house. Her curtains smelled like pee and the woman was desperate. And of course she came to ask me if the cat was properly neutered or not. This is quite easy to tell with a cat because you just have to look at the license plate and realize if there is something or nothing. Indeed, the cat was properly neutered. He had neither of his testicles, but nevertheless he had started marking again. How is that possible? Before doing any more tests on the cat, I had the lady talking to her, asking her if anything had changed in her house, if she had noticed any other strange behavior in her cat, or if she had seen the cat marking in different areas of the house. Because she only told me about the curtains. And the thing is, the cat only marked on one window. Of course, when we started investigating and thinking a little bit about it, the lady told me that there was another cat that came from outside the window and also marked outside the window in her own house. The cat inside said, well, what's this going to be? This guy's going to come here and take away my house, my place, my food? And then the cat inside the house had put its foot down and said, this can't be right. I have to mark my territory here because if I don't this guy will invade me. The cat was starting to develop a marking behavior that wasn't related to heat, but rather to territoriality. Once we discovered all this, all we had to do was simply prevent the other cat from going near the window. To do this, we put a net on the window grille so that the outside cat wouldn't have direct access to the window, and the inside cat automatically stopped marking after a while. The synthetic feline facial pheromones also helped us a little with this, as was to be expected. So you see, a neutered cat can start marking again, even if he's been properly neutered. But of course, it could also happen to you, like it did to our subscriber, Silk Ara, who tells us, I have a one year old kitten that belongs to my sister and is repeatedly marking the sofa at home. She is spayed and was the last to arrive home. She arrived in April. What can we do to prevent this behavior? Well, it's very common for cats that are new to a home to start marking their areas to recognize the house as their own. And of course, when a cat marks a sofa with urine for the first time, it's very difficult to get rid of that smell, those pheromones that come out with the urine. Even if it's a female cat and she's spayed, even if you clean it very, very well, it will probably still smell and she will still be stimulated to mark that sofa over and over again. So what can you do then? Move somewhere else? Get rid of the sofa? Don't, don't worry, it's much easier. What you have to do is clean the sofa very well with water and neutral soap, clean it very well, and never, under any circumstances put ammonia on it because that will stimulate it much more to mark there, because ammonia encourages them to pee repeatedly in one place. And after you've cleaned it and it has dried, spray on synthetic feline facial pheromones, the usual ones with a spray on top that sofa. You're going to have to do this every day, spraying the synthetic feline facial pheromones every day until the cat understands that the sofa is not marked with urine, but rather with the pheromones on the face and stop smirking. And here's another very classic question that you often ask me about, and you usually relate it to whether your cat is neutered or not. Like this follower. Hey, my cat never stops meowing. He has a very powerful meow. Even when he plays, he never gets tired. And lately he doesn't even have fun playing and ends up getting angry and aggressive. He starts attacking my legs, etc. He's super nervous and insistent, not even with scratching posts or towers, etc. Lately, he wants to escape through the door all the time. And he's neutered. Well, for the aggressiveness part, we already talked about it in a video on the channel and I'm going to leave it here. It's here and I'm going to leave it here for you. I'll leave it here so you can come over and take a look, which will surely help you. The issue of your cat wanting to escape has nothing to do with whether your cat is neutered or not. Keep in mind that cats are always explorers. They are very curious. They always try to get into any nook and cranny to see what's out there, to see if there's something they can enjoy or perhaps some food. It's very typical that if your cat has already gone outside before being neutered or even after being neutered, he's liked it and will beg you to leave your house every day. In fact, they're very insistent and will stand at your door, meow. Sometimes they'll even scratch the door and leave claw marks on it because all they want to do is go out and have fun. And although we normally associate this with heat, because yes, when cats are in heat, they want to go out. This isn't the only reason. So I'm not sure accounts and being neutered. In fact, I think it's the last reason. All your cat wants to do is go outside for fun. But given this, what can you do? Well, first of all, if you live with a cat that has just arrived at your home, never let it go outside unsupervised because that will only make it want to keep going outside again and again. But anyway, here you have to be the one to stand up to your cat and ignore it under any circumstances. Don't give in to its demands. And in order for it to help you with this titanic task, what you have to do is cat ify your home. We've already talked about all this in much more detail in a video that I'll leave here for you to watch when you're done watching this one. And one more thing, you also ask me why my cat keeps mounting his blankets like Totoro Dis, which you've all seen, or some cats their toys. If he's neutered, how is it possible that he wants to do it? Continue having relations with them. Well, well, although I already answered this on the secondary channel of Happy pets and Families, which is called Questions and Answers from a Veterinarian, a very interesting channel that you have to subscribe to. Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. You have to subscribe to it so you don't miss these and many other questions such as how often should you clean your cat's litter box? I'm also going to answer it here so that everything is together and we have a well rounded video. This is something that usually happens to cats that have been neutered when they are older because they have realized that this type of behavior pleases them. And so when they are neutered and even when they are older, they know perfectly how to stimulate themselves to have that very pleasant feeling. But of course, there are times when this happens to cats that live with other cats or with female cats and do it directly on them. This situation is no longer so harmless because it no longer only depends on a cat loving itself not only gives pleasure to himself, but it can also make the other cat uncomfortable, which creates friction. To avoid this, I recommend that if your cat does it only with his toys and doesn't bother other cats, well, it's not really a big deal because it doesn't hurt your cat, the toy or the blanket. However, if he does it with his blankets and toys and you don't like to separate them, you can try distracting your cat, removing the blanket, removing the toy, and, well, petting him for a while so that he gets over that moment of intimacy and, well, forgets about it and stops doing it. Right Then, sure, he may try it again the next day, but if he does it with other cats and those cats may feel uncomfortable with your cat, what you have to do is separate them. Don't separate them with your hands, but you can use a water spray for this so that if you catch them without fragrance, bam. You can spray a little on them with the water spray and they separate because you've cut the whole thing off. Sure. There are also some families who come to me with the evidence in front of them and say, well, what if he's neutered? What's this hanging off him? Let's see. And they show me the cat because they look behind him and keep seeing him. This is happening to an Instagram follower. My cat had surgery a month ago and it was supposedly a castration, but he still has his testicles, but they are much smaller. So did he get castrated or not? When we castrate a cat, we don't Remove the scrotum so that's left there when it heals. It's normal for you to still see him as if you have his testicles and what's left there is practically the empty sac. And that's why they look so much smaller. As I say, cats often don't come with an instruction manual. And it's normal for us in the office, the vets, to assume and take a lot of things for granted. We and for you suddenly at home to start seeing that your cat doesn't meet the standards that you have in your head of what a castrated cat is supposed to do. And then you panic and start having a lot of panic attacks, doubts. I, for my part, hope that this video has resolved those doubts. If you had them, it's great that I've seen that many people had them, but oh well. And that's it for today's video. If you liked it, give it a like, subscribe and share it with everyone. What the heck? And I don't know what I can say here because I don't want to talk about this again. Also, remember to hit the bell so that YouTube will notify you every time we uplo new content. Thank you very much for following the channel Happy pets and families and I'll see you in the next video. YouTube, you're screwed.

Yes, be careful because we're still screwing up. Shut up. Shut up. And as always, we end the video by getting to know your pets, which you introduced to us through our Facebook group. Juani Fernandez thanks us for having admitted her to the Facebook group and introduces us to Dana, her dog, who is coping as best she can with these cold days. I want to be like Dana. No, no. I would get out of bed all day long. Hey, I can do the next video like this. How pretty. Hey, the bone is practically bigger than her. Huh? Oh, she looks like my cat. Luna Aoa says good night to us and introduces us to her cat. Well, actually Amor is writing to us, which is the cat. She tells us good night. My name is Amor and my human loves taking pictures of me. She bores me. Hahaha. Thank you very much for accepting me into the group. We are both fans of your videos. Greetings. I love it. It's also because she looks a lot like my cat Luna, because she is also a little. Well, she has a slightly distracted gaze. Right. Like my cat had. She is very pretty. Oh. But she also has secret hiding places. Silvia Ordonez, who is a very good friend of the channel and I always appreciate the support she gives us, introduces us to her cat, Mia, and her dog Yoko. I am glad that she has finally appeared in this section of the channel because I was looking forward to meeting Mia and Yoko and for the entire community of pets and happy families to get to know them. And if you have a family of cats, dogs, mixed families, all well matched, and you want us to meet them, what you have to do is introduce them to us. Introduce them to us for the sake of introducing them. Introduce them to us through the channel for the sake of introducing them present on Facebook so we can include it in this section so that the entire community of pets and happy families can also get to know it. We'll leave the link to the group and to all our social networks below, as well as to the videos that we've referenced during today's video. So you can stop by and take a look. See you next week. Let's see. Go back. Come forward. Stop there. Look at Totoro. Totoro is here. That's how you understand it? Yeah. Or that's dead on you. I don't know. You know, you arrive, look at Totoro. Yes, but with a little less overacting.

I look. I look. I come like this. I look at the camera, but I look like this. I arrive, look like this, but do.

It more instead of pushing or moving sideways. Okay? More kisses, less pushing. You have to see Totoro. Think about what Totoro is doing. Go. We've had to reach this level of ridiculousness so that YouTube doesn't demonetize us videos. Okay, let's get to it. I got a rooster. You look at the camera like this.

Like this is what we have.

Eh. Eh?

Look at that plan.

Look at that plan. Yeah. Look at that plan.

Look at that plan. Look at that plan.

Come on. Look at that plan. Like this. Come on. This thing. Oh, crap. Hey. Of course. How do I do it?

It's going to say, look.

What? Yeah, yeah.

Clean the sofa really well with soap and water. With neutral soap and water. It doesn't work.

Yeah. You think you're super pressured, but no. Huh? How would you tell people, wow, we know what's up. Wow. I have a sore spot on my face. Yeah.