Originally posted by Chainsaw Kitten
I agree once you no longer plan on breeding neutering/spaying is neccessary. Cleo got killed by a dog when her kittens were 4 weeks old so I raised them on the bottle. Cute babies. She gave birth only to two, Leo and Bandit. Leo was killed by a car before he reached a year. Bandit is alive and healthy. We would have neutered Cleo but she was killed... and obviously it was no longer needed to prevent her from reproducing. * *

Cookie had a litter of 7. We had to kill a few at birth and all the rest found happy homes. Trust me, I was heartbroken and young when this happened but I knew that it had to happen. My dad grew up on a farm where the same procedure has been done for ages. We neutered cookie after because any ammount of kittens would be too many. *

And we plan on having a litter now with a new female and then having her neutered.
So you're sad that your cat died...but everytime you have a litter of kittens you KILL half of them. Girl, seriously. Don't have anymore kittens. There are enough deaths each day without you contributing to it.