If you have cats or dogs, sooner or later you have a question about their castration. This is a difficult procedure, both for the animal and for its owner. My cats are already 4 years old and every year I told myself that I would castrate them. This day has come. I was in a lot of pain, I felt like a traitor. It seemed to me that because of my whim, I put their lives in greater danger, because any operation has a chance of death ... On this day, one of the cats felt my anxiety, regret and fear, and literally did not get off me, I started crying even before leaving for the clinic…

All 4 years the cats lived in peace and love, they were close friends, always licking each other and playing ... on this day they lost each other. The fact is that animals feel this world through smells. When they greet you joyfully, they don't see "you" they can smell you. When cats undergo castration (this is the removal of reproductive organs, boys have testicles, girls have uterus and ovaries), their body stops secreting their hormones, which means that they lose their "hormonal smell and acquire a new, different… So, after returning from the clinic and not yet recovering from anesthesia, each of the cats ignored the physical presence of the second cat and searched for their girlfriends, but could not find them anywhere, because the girlfriends were "cut out" along with the reproductive organs, this smell will never return to them. I was in complete despair and could not stop the hail of my tears, I still feel guilty before them, for the operation and for doing so. Only 1 consolation to me is that the risk was necessary. One of the cats has already begun to develop neoplasms and this operation literally saved her life, despite the fact that she deprived her friend…