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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random question: wouldn't sterilization + HRT work more-or-less as well? (or in the case of female cats, hysterectomy w/o oophorectomy, which seems like it'd be perfect here honestly).
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sterilization + HRT: yes, but IME cats hate OCs because they're oily, and 15 years of daily administration or biweekly injections is... less optimal than an implant every 3-5 years hysterectomy (or tubal ligation) doesn't prevent estrus AND it never stops by itself because...
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ovulation can't happen, which is why vets (as far as I can tell) consider this procedure highly undesirable. also in theory progestin contraceptives would reduce total lifetime estrogen load and so risk of mammary (and uterine) cancer, though I am only making this…
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conclusion based on the analogy with human physiology and the fact that sterilization substantially reduces mammary cancer risk in cats.
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