Not a sexual question, need help with caring of my pet

[Oliver Walker]

So i recently adopted a male kitten, approximately around his 6-7th weeks, i am worried about how he'll be when he grows up, i live in a place full of cats so i am worried that he'll keep escaping the house for mating or other stuff, does anyone know how i can prevent this? i don't want him to get hurt.

 

[Deagle113]

How to keep him from escaping the house? As long as you provide all his needs and give him plenty of enrichment indoors you should be perfectly fine. It’s usually safer to keep cats indoors anyway in urban areas.

 

[Oliver Walker]

How to keep him from escaping the house? As long as you provide all his needs and give him plenty of enrichment indoors you should be perfectly fine. It’s usually safer to keep cats indoors anyway in urban areas.

No, like, i feel like he'll eventually go in heat and try to escape to mate with stray cats, it's happened to one of my friends' cat and he'd eventually not come back. Do i have to neuter my cat?

 

[Deagle113]

Intact male cats have stronger smelling urine, and if there are areas of your house where female cats linger they can start marking their territory by spraying it around. This is unpleasant for you and can be very difficult to stop them from doing, even post neutering.

If it’s a risk that he will get outside, and he’s intact, he absolutely will roam around looking for other cats. This will expose him to fight wounds and all the transmisible viruses that circulate around feral cat colonies.

If you’re confidant that you can keep him safely inside, you can always see if he starts showing roaming behavior, and neuter him then. If in doubt, it’s probably safer for him to neuter rather than keep him intact.

 

[Oliver Walker]

thank you so much for the advise, i'll let the time show if he'll roam out of the house or not <3

 

[Oliver Walker]

I think you'd just get practiced at watching your feet when entering or exiting your home instead of neutering. Your cat can't leave unless you make a mistake and let him.

actually he can, my apatment flat is not too high so he can even jump off the balcony in his heat lol

 

[Yuri1944]

Well, cats are creative and he will likely escape. It would be just a matter of time.

If you want to keep him around as long as possible, neutering is a solution. Otherwise you'll lose him at some point.

 

[Oliver Walker]

Well, cats are creative and he will likely escape. It would be just a matter of time.

If you want to keep him around as long as possible, neutering is a solution. Otherwise you'll lose him at some point.

thank you, i also saved him off the streets and adopted him so, he could want the streets more lol