Thread: Baby boys getting neutered on Thurday :(

I am sure they will both be fine come the morning,most probaly if Chilli had been round as much as Dexter you wouldn't have had a problem but because his mate was behaving a bit different to normal that would have been his way of showing that he felt there was something wrong.Bet they both eat breakfast as friends in the morning...

We only ever had one male at a time done and frankly noticed almost nothing different even immediately after they returned home. However, we definitely have had the cats act as if they don't know one that has just come back from the vet, with hissing, etc. for a while. Seems to be due to the vet visitor smelling odd. What you describe though sounds like aggressive but still normal play between two males. Certainly our two males often climb on one another and bite each other's neck. Your two have never ever played like this before? Males can be very physical when playing. I would be astonished if they are not fine, as they are under for just a few minutes for this procedure.

Hi. Sounds like everything went well! If you think the different smell might bother them, you could also take an used blanked and rub both with it, so they will smell alike afterwards. But I think, too, that they are just playing. My cats do that kind of stuff, too, sometimes.

Hi everyone, the boys have always played together and enjoyed some rough and tumble, but we have never seen anything that resembled real agression, it was always very playful, which is why we were so shocked. I think JCKKerrison had a point that Chilli was still spaced out as later on he came round and started attacking Dexter!, we kept them apart during the night (first time ever) and rubbed them in their fleecy blanket as Rum Tum suggested, and this morning they have been busy chasing each other round the house, their play still seems a bit rougher than usual but nothing like last night, they even shared a plate of meat, boy have they been ravenous! the vet said to give them a light dinner, in the end they had four light dinner and were still looking fior more! I was probably being a bit pathetic and over reacting last night, which is not like me honest! but in my defense it was a very stressful day! I am happier about things today and I'm sure things will be fine, just as you all said! Thanks again Guys. Luv Lisa xxx

Thats good news to read this morning,although they seem ok the anaesthetic can still stay in their system for up too 48hrs afterwards so could still account for seeming to be a bit rougher with each other at the moment,they all take & react to it in different ways & even though the boys op is quick they still have had an anaestheic.
Pathetic you,no,you are a mum & we are all like that,when I had a bitch spayed a lot of years ago she was done on the Friday so I had the weekend with her,when I went to work on Monday my then boss asked how she was & I said both of us had a rough weekend,she didn't want to be left & I was hand feeding her with cooked chicken & she looked really unhappy,he then asked if a client phoned up & reported the same what would I tell them & the reply would have been if the wound looks ok & she is not vomiting her food back take it that she is playing you up,treat her as normal,don't molly coddle her,put her food down & walk away & leave her if she is still the same in 24hrs bring her in,he just looked at me & said take your own advice & walked away.I went home lunchtime & said right you little b****r you made me look a fool,put her food down walked away & a few minutes later she was there with her ball wanting to play , I then had a job to keep her quiet enough for her wound to heal.I think we very often make it worse by the"Oh you poor thing syndrome"but we wouldn't be human would we if we didn't .....

I'm glad they've come through the op OK, and I'm sure they'll settle down soon (once the anaesthetic is out of their system and they smell 'normal' again).

This evening they seem to be very quiet, quite sleepy and are almost ignoring each other! got to be better than yesterday tho! All's quiet on the western front! Thanx again to everyone for all your support. Luv Lisa xxx

Glad to hear things sounds better. I think you may find as they get older that their play becomes more aggressive. Our males are one and two now, so the older one was a year older when we got the second one at around 12 weeks. We got the second male mainly because the older male had gotten bigger than our female that he played with as a kitten and she no longer was willing to play with him. The bigger male let the smaller guy do pretty much anything to him for a long time, but as the younger one got older and much larger, their play changed. They got so they didn't wrestle nearly as much; it looked like they were trying to figure out how to still do this given that they were nearly the same sizes--and large sizes at that. They clearly sometimes got mad at one another when playing, when one went too far for the other--which often did happen. This seems to be improving recently in that they appear to be more controlled in their play, but there were times over the last several months where we have intervened to reduce the aggressiveness of the interactions (we have also tried to keep their nails trimmed to reduce the possibility of one injuring the other).