Comments for Spay Week Ireland 2010 http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog 30th May to 6th June 2010 Tue, 25 May 2010 13:35:24 +0100 hourly 1 Comment on Pete the Vet on TV3 about Spay Week Ireland 2009 by Pete Wedderburn http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-271 Pete Wedderburn Tue, 25 May 2010 13:35:24 +0000 http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=27#comment-271 Good point Clare - the Spayweek team have been sending out a letter to vets for the past four years that states "Both male and female cats should be neutered/spayed at 4-5 months of age". Vets traditionally spay/castrate cats at around 6 months of age, and it's taking some time to get this message across. I had a concern about stating firmly on television that "cats should be spayed at 4 months of age" because I felt that some vets might disagree with this, causing confusion for cat owners when they turned up expecting the vet to agree to do the operation. I don't think many cats give birth between 5 and 7 months of age, so I didn't think that it would cause a big problem to take this approach. But yes, I agree that it's good to do the op at this earlier age, and thank you for raising the point. Good point Clare – the Spayweek team have been sending out a letter to vets for the past four years that states “Both male and female cats should be neutered/spayed at 4-5 months of age”.
Vets traditionally spay/castrate cats at around 6 months of age, and it’s taking some time to get this message across.
I had a concern about stating firmly on television that “cats should be spayed at 4 months of age” because I felt that some vets might disagree with this, causing confusion for cat owners when they turned up expecting the vet to agree to do the operation. I don’t think many cats give birth between 5 and 7 months of age, so I didn’t think that it would cause a big problem to take this approach.
But yes, I agree that it’s good to do the op at this earlier age, and thank you for raising the point.

]]> Comment on Pete the Vet on TV3 about Spay Week Ireland 2009 by clare meade http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-270 clare meade Tue, 25 May 2010 11:52:04 +0000 http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=27#comment-270 TIMING OF NEUTERING CATS Advising owners to wait until 6-7 months of age to spey or neuter a cat results in many families having unwanted litters of kittens the cat group recommend 4 months as the age to consider neutering a female cat you can read the information and policy statement on www.thecatgroup.org.uk/ TIMING OF NEUTERING CATS

Advising owners to wait until 6-7 months of age to spey or neuter a cat results in many families having unwanted litters of kittens

the cat group recommend 4 months as the age to consider neutering a female cat

you can read the information and policy statement on http://www.thecatgroup.org.uk/

]]> Comment on Benefits of spaying & neutering by Spay Week Ireland 2009 » Blog Archive » General spay & neuter links http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?page_id=17&cpage=1#comment-190 Spay Week Ireland 2009 » Blog Archive » General spay & neuter links Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:14:46 +0000 http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?page_id=17#comment-190 [...] General information about the process [...] [...] General information about the process [...]

]]> Comment on Spay Week campaigners say it’s time pet owners did their sums by dcox http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=16&cpage=1#comment-111 dcox Tue, 27 May 2008 11:02:43 +0000 http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=16#comment-111 hi le craic, thanks for your link and comment. i have shortened the posts... denise hi le craic,
thanks for your link and comment. i have shortened the posts… denise

]]> Comment on Spay Week campaigners say it’s time pet owners did their sums by le craic » Come on, come on let’s spay together http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=16&cpage=1#comment-110 le craic » Come on, come on let’s spay together Tue, 27 May 2008 10:08:16 +0000 http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=16#comment-110 [...] week is Spay Week. John Gormley was at the launch, for it is his department which oversees the work of dog pounds in [...] [...] week is Spay Week. John Gormley was at the launch, for it is his department which oversees the work of dog pounds in [...]

]]> Comment on Welcome to our new website by dcox http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-10 dcox Wed, 23 May 2007 18:13:18 +0000 http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=3#comment-10 regarding vets, please contact dogs trust at the number listed in the press release. regarding posters please contact the PR company. thanks regarding vets, please contact dogs trust at the number listed in the press release.

regarding posters please contact the PR company. thanks

]]> Comment on Welcome to our new website by maura rua http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-6 maura rua Wed, 09 May 2007 14:22:06 +0000 http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=3#comment-6 are there any posters available that can be used to promote spay week ireland? are there any posters available that can be used to promote spay week ireland?

]]> Comment on Welcome to our new website by charlie http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-3 charlie Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:40:46 +0000 http://www.spayweekireland.ie/blog/?p=3#comment-3 hi i'd like to know the nearest vet in blanchardstown area participating in the spay week scheme. tks Charlie hi

i’d like to know the nearest vet in blanchardstown area participating in the spay week scheme.

tks
Charlie

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