they say cats are playful when young and then aren't, "can't teach old [cat] new tricks", etc. but this isn't true when said about people, you can do a PhD at 80 if capitalism hasn't succeeded in draining all your life. on the other hand, if no one ever taught you anything but…
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rather sterilized you instead of giving you a subdermal contraceptive implant ("docility is considered an advantage in pets", bleh, so no one cares enough to market these for cats) you probably wouldn't do that
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you can literally just use the same subdermal levonorgestrel or etonogestrel implants they use for humans ("Nexplanon" etc) for cats, they're safe, effective, reversible, and don't cause major behavioral changes other than inhibiting estrus why the hell no one does??
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(progestins work on male cats just as well. i mean, progestins work on male *humans* just as well, but they cause erectile dysfunction, so for some reason they don't sell like hotcakes. with that caveat, male oral contraceptives already exist and work)
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well i guess the answer is "nexplanon is $230 per implant [works a few years. designed for five but cat metabolism is different] and not covered by insurance, and sterilization is cheaper and everyone does it" but this answer fuckin sucks
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I've only looked up research on cats personally, but it made references to dogs, and just from the general principles it would likely work on most mammals that aren't like an elephant you'd want to triple check the dosages, safety and efficiency, of course.
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Well, now I feel quite terrible about chopping up all my pets bits and pieces. I’m going to tell everyone I know about this.
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tbh most of the fault here is not at you but at the vets, to whom this should be obvious and who should inform people of this. you probably didn't formally study physiology, we did, so the whole sterilization thing was immediately very fishy to me.
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cat oral contraceptives are literally just Provera dosage adjusted for body mass, there's no actual difference. so I looked up if anyone tried subdermal implants and guess what, they also work in the same way as on humans. which is exactly what I expected.
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