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I adopted a male kitten at 8 months old. He is now 10 months old. The previous owner assured me that he was neutered and up to date on shots. She is suppose to be sending me his records. In the past few days he has been humping my 7 yr old spayed female. Is this normal? He has not sprayed or given any other signs
Do male kittens try to mate when fixed.
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Neutered cats can sometimes show sexual behaviors if they were neutered after puberty - you don’t see this in early-neutered cats, but if it was done when he was already 6 months old or older he probably was already mature. He can’t mate but might just be “going through the motions” so to speak, and sometimes mounting is a dominance behavior more than a sexual behavior. If your spayed female resents this behavior he’ll probably get a facefull of claws for his trouble, so you might want to discourage him from doing this by distracting him by shouting and clapping, giving him a spray of water, or shaking a can of dry beans.
That said you can find out if he’s been neutered pretty easily by turning him around and lifting his tail. If he’s been neutered the space between his urethral opening and anus will be mostly flat, if not there will still be testes there, they look like two cotton-balls. Neutering procedures often leave the empty scrotum intact but it is not usually that prominent. Unneutered tomcats also tend to have rounder faces with thicker jowls.
If he hasn’t been spraying he is probably neutered though if he is allowed access outdoors he might be spraying outside and not inside as spraying tends to be done around the perimeter of a cat’s territory rather than in the middle of it.
If you are having trouble telling, a vet can tell you pretty quickly if he’s been neutered or not. Even if he’s got all his shots, you might want to have him looked over by your own vet anyway, and probably tested for internal parasites and ear mites.
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It can happen with kittens that were neutered very young as well. We have a couple ferals that were neutered at 3 and 4 months old and they display this behavior.
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That's unusual, I've never seen that. Not saying I don't believe you though, I'm sure it's true. Just not something I personally have seen. But I have seen cats that were neutered as adults retain some of this behavior pretty commonly.
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it could be a sign of dominance (because dogs also react the same way even though the’re neutered).
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