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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male oral contraceptives for humans? what's it called? I couldn't find it with a quick search
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progestins like levonorgestrel or medroxyprogesterone. this isn't a serious suggestion btw, they have more side effects in humans than in cats that would require management (notably osteoporosis), plus they would kill your sex drive, fertility, and erectile function...
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but cats don't get osteoporosis from low levels of sex steroids for some reason i was never able to pinpoint to anything specific, and don't really care whether they have sex drive or not, so it works really well for them!
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