When she was a child, The Darthside knew she didn’t want to have children. At nineteen, she decided to get sterilized, and seven years later had the procedure done by a surgeon in Germany. The procedure had been done endoscopically, leaving her with no scars, which bothered her, so she had Muffe at Copenhagen Body Extremes in Denmark giver her three cuts, intended to look like a large scratch.
A while later, after reading the various animal modification posts, she realized that her cats and her have sort of matching scars, all stemming from sterilization…
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252 responses to “Cat and Human, Matching Scars”
the first thing i nticedabout this (fab by the way) pic, was she has a belly and love handles!! FAB!!
am sick of seeing size 0 lollipops!!!
the first thing i nticedabout this (fab by the way) pic, was she has a belly and love handles!! FAB!!
am sick of seeing size 0 lollipops!!!
the first thing i nticedabout this (fab by the way) pic, was she has a belly and love handles!! FAB!!
am sick of seeing size 0 lollipops!!!
the first thing i nticedabout this (fab by the way) pic, was she has a belly and love handles!! FAB!!
am sick of seeing size 0 lollipops!!!
Female cats go into heat pretty often, and for some of them it lasts a looooong time.
Even getting them *laid* wont help much, because their instincts tell them to keep going, keep finding partners, so the strongest genes/sperm will win, and she will have the strongest litter.
If you want to compare it to something humans can relate to then think of really really strong period cramps that can last up to a month (in extreme cases it lasts longer, that’s rare though).
We had one cat that howled so much that she lost her voice, and even when the voice was gone she would continue to howl in a horse rasping miaouw.. You could see the pain edged on her face after a few days, and it didn’t go away for weeks sometimes.
Humans can control their urges, can take stuff for the pain etc. Cats really don’t have many options. heck, giving them the pill so they can run free when they’re in heat is a really bad idea… The pill for cats has a high risk of cancer.
And there you have the bullseye for The Darthsides argument about doctors. The pill for humans doesn’t run as high of a risk for cancer as the one for cats, but it certainly has major side effects. Yet they push that on children/teens without a second thought.
If you want to have kids one day then, by all means, use the pill.. But any doctor who argues agains’t SAFER alternatives is breaking his promise to always protect his patience.
If you look at the statistics then sterilization is one of the safest options for you.. There is such a thing as adoption if you ever regret the decision..
Female cats go into heat pretty often, and for some of them it lasts a looooong time.
Even getting them *laid* wont help much, because their instincts tell them to keep going, keep finding partners, so the strongest genes/sperm will win, and she will have the strongest litter.
If you want to compare it to something humans can relate to then think of really really strong period cramps that can last up to a month (in extreme cases it lasts longer, that’s rare though).
We had one cat that howled so much that she lost her voice, and even when the voice was gone she would continue to howl in a horse rasping miaouw.. You could see the pain edged on her face after a few days, and it didn’t go away for weeks sometimes.
Humans can control their urges, can take stuff for the pain etc. Cats really don’t have many options. heck, giving them the pill so they can run free when they’re in heat is a really bad idea… The pill for cats has a high risk of cancer.
And there you have the bullseye for The Darthsides argument about doctors. The pill for humans doesn’t run as high of a risk for cancer as the one for cats, but it certainly has major side effects. Yet they push that on children/teens without a second thought.
If you want to have kids one day then, by all means, use the pill.. But any doctor who argues agains’t SAFER alternatives is breaking his promise to always protect his patience.
If you look at the statistics then sterilization is one of the safest options for you.. There is such a thing as adoption if you ever regret the decision..
Female cats go into heat pretty often, and for some of them it lasts a looooong time.
Even getting them *laid* wont help much, because their instincts tell them to keep going, keep finding partners, so the strongest genes/sperm will win, and she will have the strongest litter.
If you want to compare it to something humans can relate to then think of really really strong period cramps that can last up to a month (in extreme cases it lasts longer, that’s rare though).
We had one cat that howled so much that she lost her voice, and even when the voice was gone she would continue to howl in a horse rasping miaouw.. You could see the pain edged on her face after a few days, and it didn’t go away for weeks sometimes.
Humans can control their urges, can take stuff for the pain etc. Cats really don’t have many options. heck, giving them the pill so they can run free when they’re in heat is a really bad idea… The pill for cats has a high risk of cancer.
And there you have the bullseye for The Darthsides argument about doctors. The pill for humans doesn’t run as high of a risk for cancer as the one for cats, but it certainly has major side effects. Yet they push that on children/teens without a second thought.
If you want to have kids one day then, by all means, use the pill.. But any doctor who argues agains’t SAFER alternatives is breaking his promise to always protect his patience.
If you look at the statistics then sterilization is one of the safest options for you.. There is such a thing as adoption if you ever regret the decision..
Female cats go into heat pretty often, and for some of them it lasts a looooong time.
Even getting them *laid* wont help much, because their instincts tell them to keep going, keep finding partners, so the strongest genes/sperm will win, and she will have the strongest litter.
If you want to compare it to something humans can relate to then think of really really strong period cramps that can last up to a month (in extreme cases it lasts longer, that’s rare though).
We had one cat that howled so much that she lost her voice, and even when the voice was gone she would continue to howl in a horse rasping miaouw.. You could see the pain edged on her face after a few days, and it didn’t go away for weeks sometimes.
Humans can control their urges, can take stuff for the pain etc. Cats really don’t have many options. heck, giving them the pill so they can run free when they’re in heat is a really bad idea… The pill for cats has a high risk of cancer.
And there you have the bullseye for The Darthsides argument about doctors. The pill for humans doesn’t run as high of a risk for cancer as the one for cats, but it certainly has major side effects. Yet they push that on children/teens without a second thought.
If you want to have kids one day then, by all means, use the pill.. But any doctor who argues agains’t SAFER alternatives is breaking his promise to always protect his patience.
If you look at the statistics then sterilization is one of the safest options for you.. There is such a thing as adoption if you ever regret the decision..
.29- Sara was referring to the cat’s scar not being a modification, not The Darthside’s!
.29- Sara was referring to the cat’s scar not being a modification, not The Darthside’s!
.29- Sara was referring to the cat’s scar not being a modification, not The Darthside’s!
.29- Sara was referring to the cat’s scar not being a modification, not The Darthside’s!
While slightly unrelated, my sister’s BOY cat has a spaying scar because he was quite young and the Vet forgot to check and see if he was male or female!
So they opened up poor mister kitty and then the vet has a look around and says “Wait a minute… this cat doesn’t have ovaries!!”
Poor little fella got a belly scar and an operation for no reason!
While slightly unrelated, my sister’s BOY cat has a spaying scar because he was quite young and the Vet forgot to check and see if he was male or female!
So they opened up poor mister kitty and then the vet has a look around and says “Wait a minute… this cat doesn’t have ovaries!!”
Poor little fella got a belly scar and an operation for no reason!
While slightly unrelated, my sister’s BOY cat has a spaying scar because he was quite young and the Vet forgot to check and see if he was male or female!
So they opened up poor mister kitty and then the vet has a look around and says “Wait a minute… this cat doesn’t have ovaries!!”
Poor little fella got a belly scar and an operation for no reason!
While slightly unrelated, my sister’s BOY cat has a spaying scar because he was quite young and the Vet forgot to check and see if he was male or female!
So they opened up poor mister kitty and then the vet has a look around and says “Wait a minute… this cat doesn’t have ovaries!!”
Poor little fella got a belly scar and an operation for no reason!
When i asked my Dr. for a tubal ligation after my daughter was born, she refused. When i asked again after incurring a lot of serious health problems that were related to my pregnancy, she still refused. Said i needed to wait until i had another child or turned 35. Whereas my digestive specialist said if i had another pregnancy, i could die from health complications after childbirth. Go figure…
When i asked my Dr. for a tubal ligation after my daughter was born, she refused. When i asked again after incurring a lot of serious health problems that were related to my pregnancy, she still refused. Said i needed to wait until i had another child or turned 35. Whereas my digestive specialist said if i had another pregnancy, i could die from health complications after childbirth. Go figure…
When i asked my Dr. for a tubal ligation after my daughter was born, she refused. When i asked again after incurring a lot of serious health problems that were related to my pregnancy, she still refused. Said i needed to wait until i had another child or turned 35. Whereas my digestive specialist said if i had another pregnancy, i could die from health complications after childbirth. Go figure…
When i asked my Dr. for a tubal ligation after my daughter was born, she refused. When i asked again after incurring a lot of serious health problems that were related to my pregnancy, she still refused. Said i needed to wait until i had another child or turned 35. Whereas my digestive specialist said if i had another pregnancy, i could die from health complications after childbirth. Go figure…
just a little info … i am a vet tech at a veterinary hospital, and can assure you that one of the BEST things you can do for your pet is spay/neuter them. pet overpopulation is a serious tragedy with WAY too many pets being euthanized every year simply because no one will adopt them. as well as the fact that spaying a female dramatically lowers their chances of getting mammary cancer(less hormones to stimulate)as well as ridding the chance of getting uterine or ovarian cancer(those organs are gone!). similar for males – virtually no prostate problems with a neutered dog, compared with a VERY safe bet that an un-neuterd older male dog will have prostate problems. also, dogs will have “periods”, like people, while cats will not go out of heat without stimulation (mating). very troublesome. love your pet, have them fixed!
just a little info … i am a vet tech at a veterinary hospital, and can assure you that one of the BEST things you can do for your pet is spay/neuter them. pet overpopulation is a serious tragedy with WAY too many pets being euthanized every year simply because no one will adopt them. as well as the fact that spaying a female dramatically lowers their chances of getting mammary cancer(less hormones to stimulate)as well as ridding the chance of getting uterine or ovarian cancer(those organs are gone!). similar for males – virtually no prostate problems with a neutered dog, compared with a VERY safe bet that an un-neuterd older male dog will have prostate problems. also, dogs will have “periods”, like people, while cats will not go out of heat without stimulation (mating). very troublesome. love your pet, have them fixed!
just a little info … i am a vet tech at a veterinary hospital, and can assure you that one of the BEST things you can do for your pet is spay/neuter them. pet overpopulation is a serious tragedy with WAY too many pets being euthanized every year simply because no one will adopt them. as well as the fact that spaying a female dramatically lowers their chances of getting mammary cancer(less hormones to stimulate)as well as ridding the chance of getting uterine or ovarian cancer(those organs are gone!). similar for males – virtually no prostate problems with a neutered dog, compared with a VERY safe bet that an un-neuterd older male dog will have prostate problems. also, dogs will have “periods”, like people, while cats will not go out of heat without stimulation (mating). very troublesome. love your pet, have them fixed!
just a little info … i am a vet tech at a veterinary hospital, and can assure you that one of the BEST things you can do for your pet is spay/neuter them. pet overpopulation is a serious tragedy with WAY too many pets being euthanized every year simply because no one will adopt them. as well as the fact that spaying a female dramatically lowers their chances of getting mammary cancer(less hormones to stimulate)as well as ridding the chance of getting uterine or ovarian cancer(those organs are gone!). similar for males – virtually no prostate problems with a neutered dog, compared with a VERY safe bet that an un-neuterd older male dog will have prostate problems. also, dogs will have “periods”, like people, while cats will not go out of heat without stimulation (mating). very troublesome. love your pet, have them fixed!
a little more info…i have uterine fibriods (tumors) and had to have surgery last year to remove the VERY painful largest ones (large grapefruit-sized!). having these fibroids at worst minimally lowers my chances of getting pregnant and i would still be able to have children post fibroid surgery. but i do not want children, and therefore inquired about tubal ligation during my fibriod surgery, or even as a later surgery. at 28, there was no problem with a doctor willing to do the surgery. there is NO law that states a female must be a minimum age to be sterilized. i asked both my OB-GYNs all the specifics. one was very reluctant, the other willing if i really wished. every doctor will do what they believe is best, and opinions differ. doctors are simply very weary of changed minds and possibly being sued. it is an elective surgery. what one desires at 22 can be night-and-day to what one wants at 37. reversal of tubal ligation does not have a fabulous success rate, and is painful (so i hear) and very expensive. most doctors just want to make sure a women is not devastated from a decision she made when she was younger.
a little more info…i have uterine fibriods (tumors) and had to have surgery last year to remove the VERY painful largest ones (large grapefruit-sized!). having these fibroids at worst minimally lowers my chances of getting pregnant and i would still be able to have children post fibroid surgery. but i do not want children, and therefore inquired about tubal ligation during my fibriod surgery, or even as a later surgery. at 28, there was no problem with a doctor willing to do the surgery. there is NO law that states a female must be a minimum age to be sterilized. i asked both my OB-GYNs all the specifics. one was very reluctant, the other willing if i really wished. every doctor will do what they believe is best, and opinions differ. doctors are simply very weary of changed minds and possibly being sued. it is an elective surgery. what one desires at 22 can be night-and-day to what one wants at 37. reversal of tubal ligation does not have a fabulous success rate, and is painful (so i hear) and very expensive. most doctors just want to make sure a women is not devastated from a decision she made when she was younger.
a little more info…i have uterine fibriods (tumors) and had to have surgery last year to remove the VERY painful largest ones (large grapefruit-sized!). having these fibroids at worst minimally lowers my chances of getting pregnant and i would still be able to have children post fibroid surgery. but i do not want children, and therefore inquired about tubal ligation during my fibriod surgery, or even as a later surgery. at 28, there was no problem with a doctor willing to do the surgery. there is NO law that states a female must be a minimum age to be sterilized. i asked both my OB-GYNs all the specifics. one was very reluctant, the other willing if i really wished. every doctor will do what they believe is best, and opinions differ. doctors are simply very weary of changed minds and possibly being sued. it is an elective surgery. what one desires at 22 can be night-and-day to what one wants at 37. reversal of tubal ligation does not have a fabulous success rate, and is painful (so i hear) and very expensive. most doctors just want to make sure a women is not devastated from a decision she made when she was younger.
a little more info…i have uterine fibriods (tumors) and had to have surgery last year to remove the VERY painful largest ones (large grapefruit-sized!). having these fibroids at worst minimally lowers my chances of getting pregnant and i would still be able to have children post fibroid surgery. but i do not want children, and therefore inquired about tubal ligation during my fibriod surgery, or even as a later surgery. at 28, there was no problem with a doctor willing to do the surgery. there is NO law that states a female must be a minimum age to be sterilized. i asked both my OB-GYNs all the specifics. one was very reluctant, the other willing if i really wished. every doctor will do what they believe is best, and opinions differ. doctors are simply very weary of changed minds and possibly being sued. it is an elective surgery. what one desires at 22 can be night-and-day to what one wants at 37. reversal of tubal ligation does not have a fabulous success rate, and is painful (so i hear) and very expensive. most doctors just want to make sure a women is not devastated from a decision she made when she was younger.
I know it’s not the focus of this post, but I _love_ the morse code tattoo!
I know it’s not the focus of this post, but I _love_ the morse code tattoo!
I know it’s not the focus of this post, but I _love_ the morse code tattoo!
I know it’s not the focus of this post, but I _love_ the morse code tattoo!
Bahahahahah – the scars (and the Darth) are more fun in person. Trust me. 😉
Bahahahahah – the scars (and the Darth) are more fun in person. Trust me. 😉
Bahahahahah – the scars (and the Darth) are more fun in person. Trust me. 😉
Bahahahahah – the scars (and the Darth) are more fun in person. Trust me. 😉
I’m with #51. Lollipops are evil. :]
I’m with #51. Lollipops are evil. :]
I’m with #51. Lollipops are evil. :]
I’m with #51. Lollipops are evil. :]
There are doctors that will tie your tubes or snip your junk when you’re in your 20s, you just have to keep getting 2nd and 3rd and 4th opinions.
P.S. #60, lollipops are not evil. No one is automatically evil. What if someone said, “fatasses are evil :]”? Not funny.
There are doctors that will tie your tubes or snip your junk when you’re in your 20s, you just have to keep getting 2nd and 3rd and 4th opinions.
P.S. #60, lollipops are not evil. No one is automatically evil. What if someone said, “fatasses are evil :]”? Not funny.
There are doctors that will tie your tubes or snip your junk when you’re in your 20s, you just have to keep getting 2nd and 3rd and 4th opinions.
P.S. #60, lollipops are not evil. No one is automatically evil. What if someone said, “fatasses are evil :]”? Not funny.
There are doctors that will tie your tubes or snip your junk when you’re in your 20s, you just have to keep getting 2nd and 3rd and 4th opinions.
P.S. #60, lollipops are not evil. No one is automatically evil. What if someone said, “fatasses are evil :]”? Not funny.
zombie kitteh :]
zombie kitteh :]
zombie kitteh :]
zombie kitteh :]
spayin or what ever “fixing”(breaking) your pet .
Is agaisnt my relgion.
spayin or what ever “fixing”(breaking) your pet .
Is agaisnt my relgion.