Gonadectomy Surgical Complications and Risks
Anesthesia and Anesthetic Tube Complications
- Cats can feel high on the anesthesia
- There is small risk of death from the anesthesia: .11% for healthy cats and 1.40 for sick cats
- The anesthesia tube that goes down the throat during the surgeries (including gonadectomies) can damage the larynx
Behavioral Surgical Risks and Complications
- Cat can feel angry after the surgery, often as a response to it
- Cat can lose the ablility to recognize others (other cats, humans, e.t.c.) whom it has recognized before
- Cat can respond negatively to the surgery (who wouldn't, they didn't consent to having it done on them). For example, a male cat reacts in dismay, disapproval, and even anger in response to noticing a lack of testicles that he had before the surgery.
Other Surgical Risks and Complications
Both Sexes
- Paralysis
- Some surgeries may be botched, which can lead to death
- Sutures may break, which can lead to death
- Incisions may swell
- Ruptures may occur, which can lead to death
- Late complications from the surgery (castration for males, ovariohysterectomies for females)
- Post-operative renal failure (kidney failure)
- Wound infection
- Tracheal damage in cats from the overinflation of the endotracheal tubes (ET)
- Excessive wound hemorrhage (excessive bleeding during or after surgery)
- Catatonia (a catatonic state)
- Pain after surgery (For example, a cat walk stiffly or a cat not wanting to sit down)
- Death
- Swollen, bruised, and/or blood-filled scrotum after surgery
- Penile and/or urethral laceration
- Failuere to ligate (tie off) the testicular blood vessels adequately
- Damage to the urethra by being pulled on too hard during castration. The damage can’t be healed, not even with homeopathy.
sources
1) For Prostate Cancer, Obesity, e.t.c.: https://www.vetinfo.com/cat-neutering-complications.html#b
2) For Anesthetic Death, Obesity, and Increased Appetite: http://www.thedogplace.org/Spay-Neuter/risk-vs-benefit.asp
3) For Capital Femoral Physeal Fracture: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685007/
4) For FLUTD: https://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.2001.218.1429
5) http://www.catdefender.blogspot.com
6) https://retmeishka.wordpress.com/
2) For Anesthetic Death, Obesity, and Increased Appetite: http://www.thedogplace.org/Spay-Neuter/risk-vs-benefit.asp
3) For Capital Femoral Physeal Fracture: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685007/
4) For FLUTD: https://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.2001.218.1429
5) http://www.catdefender.blogspot.com
6) https://retmeishka.wordpress.com/