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milly143 | 21:35 Tue 15th Mar 2005 | Animals & Nature
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When is the best time to have my 3 month old kitten neutered/spayed (it's a boy, can never remember which one is which). Also is there anything I can do to stop him eating my house plants? I heard some can be poisonous to cats and he is ruining them. :-)
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Toms are neutered and queens are spayed.
Ask your vet when you next visit for jabs.
I usually assume animals have enugh sense not to eat poisenous stuff - could easily be wrong - I so often am!
Have you tried growing some catmint for him to chew at?

Boys usually need neutering at around 6/7 months...but that varies from different Vets.

You could spray your plants with bitter bite...get it from most pet shops...it tastes yuck. The chewing thing gets better as cats mature & get to munch plants outside. Sadly cats don't always have the sense to know what is poisonous, the less obvious poisonous houseplants that I know of are, poinsettia,oleander &diffenbachia.

I got my male cat neutered at around 6 months and what a difference that made.  He was in less fights and didn't wail at other cats. 

I remember when he was a wee kitten I'd be watching TV then all of  a sudden he'd be clawing his way up my curtains.  He also used to scratch our settee - what a time we had.

Buy some Catnip from your local petshop and watch your kitten go wild for it - It may also distract him from chewing your plants.

Best of luck

yep mine were done at around 6 months too.

you could also try bringing in some turf with grass and showing him he's allowed to chew that but not the other plants - mine got the hang of the fact that they're allowed to scratch the scratching post and not the furniture (well, most of the time) so it could work.

one tsp vinegar in a water bottle and spray in at the cat when he chews the plants. This and giving him more toys to play with (spray them with catnip) should help your plants...

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thanks for all the tips! He has tones of toys to play with but then he seems to think everything is a toy. Will give some of them a go.

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