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- From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Neutering question
- Message-ID: <H.ea.OJXTEMXe71M@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:12:16 GMT
- References: <1e8nn4INN99v@agate.berkeley.edu>
- <1992Nov16.194804.3493@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- <1992Nov16.225510.28527@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov>
- <1992Nov19.222228.11444@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
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- Organization: gators 'r us
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- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
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- In <1992Nov19.222228.11444@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, Ruth Milner writes:
- >What with all the flames and hyperbole this seemingly innocent posting has
- >generated, everyone seems to have forgotten, or missed, the fact that the
- >original question was about a *male* cat being *neutered*. This is not major
- >surgery; in humans it's done with a local anaesthetic in the doctor's office.
-
- when male cats are neutered they are castrated: the testicles are removed.
- when male humans are sterilised (at least the ones i've known), all the
- doctor does is disconnect a couple of tubes. it's not the same surgery at all.
- --
- -- little gator aka s. mudgett email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
- -- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
-