Just to update this...just in case you were interested

I had my female cat, Willow, neutered today. She is just a few days off 6 months and we decided it was better safe than sorry having a boy in the house. My boy, Darwin, will have his "man berries" removed when he is older and more mature.

The vet did a great job. A small midline incision with only the minimal amout of hair shaven off her abdomen. And there is no hair shaven from her leg where the the intravenous cannula was inserted. Dissolvable stitches too.

Excellent job. And only £54.

I can not believe how well she has recovered from the GA too.

She should be all recovered by the time her next show comes around.

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Hey BSH, great news about your girl. And I think your male will be the bonnier for waiting that wee bit longer for his man-berry-ectomy. I am sooooo glad my advice didn’t clash with Mrs Graves’, lol. (She’s a lovely lady, I had the pleasure to speak at length on the phone with her earlier this year and she helped me a lot. Her cats are out of this world gorgeous!! I had to stop looking at her website as it was just making me drool too much!)

I'm so glad Willow is recovering well and it's great that your vet has done such a great job. Out of interest was your vet happy to do a midline incision and not shave her leg? I need to get my female BSH Millie neutered in the next couple of months and am hoping our vets are happy to do a midline.

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Thanks Tje. Ursula Graves' (Sargenta) cats are indeed fantastic. My Willow has a lot of Sargenta in her line. Her Sire is an Imperial Grand Champion Sargenta & her Dam is half-Sargenta too That's partly why she is dropdeadgorgeous, not that I am biased

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My vet (who I only met for the first time today) was quite happy to do a midline incision. He did explain that it was a more complex approach and anaesthesia would be slightly longer compared to the time it took to do a flank approach, but he completely understood my reasons for requesting it. He was well aware her fur could grow back darker over the shaved area and affect her show quality. He took great care to do a small incison and hence only a small shave was required. He clipped a couple of hairs with scissors on her foreleg for the IV but I can not see where.

I hope your vet will be as undertsnading for your Millie. Some breeders at the last show I went to said they felt cats recovered from a midline op quicker. I am tending to agree from what i have seen so far.

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.... even here in Holland in the Sargenta name is very well known, as is Mrs Graves'. I was quite shocked how well known Mrs Graves is, even in this country. My silver tabby comes from a top dutch breeder and him and Mrs Graves go way back to the early 80s (he is a judge at shows here and I spoke briefly to him at an easter show) and the foundation stud for his current (very well known line) was a Sargenta.

And heyyyyyy, with a Sargenta, I think you're allowed to be biased