Does an adopted cat have to be neutered?

How to tell whether a one-year-old female cat has been neutered or not? It is indeed a bit difficult to just rely on the naked eye to observe the appearance. However, you can also make a rough prediction through the following methods. The details are below Check the method, hope it can help you.

The first method: ears

Now there are small animal rescue agencies in the city, which perform sterilization and castration surgeries on stray cats, and then release them back into the wild. In order to avoid people being For a second surgery, after the surgery, a gap will be cut at the tip of the cat's ears. The rules are the left ear for male cats and the right ear for female cats. (Because it did happen before, after the abdominal cavity was opened under anesthesia, it was discovered that the cat had been sterilized)

You can check whether there are gaps in the ears on both sides of the cat. If so, then Don't do surgery for the time being and observe for a while.

Notes:

When you look at cat ear notches, you must distinguish them from ear tears caused by cat fights. Normally neutered cats have semicircular ear notches and wounds. Wounds injured in fights are generally irregular while they are relatively regular.

Second method: Abdomen

1cm below the navel is the site for sterilization surgery. You can carefully observe whether there is a whitish mark. If there is, it means that it is done. Those who have undergone surgery, but the probability of this identification is too low, because the probability of cats leaving scars after surgery is too low, unless the cat has just had the surgery not long ago. Feel the surgical site with your hands to see if there is a row of hard foreign objects. Because many cat surgeries here are sutured with silk threads, you can sometimes feel the sutures inside the skin with your hands. This method is better than looking at the skin. The scarring success rate is higher. The third method: fat and thin