Caring for Cat after Spay: Foster Kitten Spay and Neuter Surgery Recovery

Kitten Spay and Neuter Surgery Recovery: actual spay and neuter surgery day footage. We’re bringing the foster kittens home to recover from surgery! The girl kittens were spayed and the boy kitten got neutered.

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Kittens can typically be spayed or neutered when they are both 2 months old and have reached 2 pounds. In shelters and foster environments, this is typically when the surgery happens because they need to be desexed before adoption to prevent an overload of kittens in the community. If you have an unaltered kitten, you may choose to wait a little bit longer to let the kitten get bigger and stronger before surgery; however, we have never had a problem with kittens recovering after being spayed or neutered.

Neutering surgery for boy kittens is quick and not terribly invasive. It involves anesthesia and a small incision. The most difficult part of neuter recovery for boy kittens is usually recovering from the anesthesia. Boys can be grumpy, aggressive, and confused after waking up. This bad mood is exacerbated by them being hungry from not eating before or during surgery. In our experience, boy kittens usually need a slow introduction to food and a good play session after neutering surgery. Then after a good night’s sleep, they’re typically back to normal. It’s still important to keep an eye on the boy kitten’s incision location to make sure there’s no redness or other signs of infection. Overall the neuter surgery is fairly minimal and recovery is simple.

Boy kittens don’t usually need cones after being neutered unless they are harassing their female siblings. If they attempt to lick or bite at a female sibling’s incision site, a cone will help to curb that behavior. Since boys usually feel better more quickly than girls, if you are spaying and neutering a whole litter, it is prudent to keep an eye out for rough play from the boys that the girls are not yet ready for.

Spay surgery is a little more intensive for girl kittens. They receive anesthesia and an incision on their lower belly that’s about one inch long. Then, internal reproductive organs are removed. The incision is then stitched or glued shut. Girl kittens need to recover from the anesthesia, which leaves them disoriented, confused, groggy, and miserable. Girl kittens also need to recover from the trauma of the larger incision, and the internal incisions and larger organ removal. All incision sites are inflamed, and are potential sources of infection. Since there are more incision sites and they are larger than the incisions that the boy kittens receive during neutering, the girl kittens are have a tougher recovery and are more at risk of infection from their spay surgery.

Typically, girl kittens are mopey and miserable after spaying. They are often put in cones to keep them from licking their sore and itchy spay incision site. They need to be fed, slowly at first to prevent stomach upset, and then monitored to make sure they are eating enough. Their incision site should be monitored daily at minimum to ensure that it hasn’t been ripped open and that there are no signs of infection. This should be done until it heals. If there is pus or redness around the incision site, or other signs of infection such a fever, a vet should be consulted immediately.

In our experience, girl kittens are usually miserable after surgery. They will be groggy, low energy, and sore. Occasionally you’ll get one who is energetic like the boy kittens typically are, but not often. After food, lots of loving pets, and a good night’s sleep, the female kittens are typically feeling much better. They will still be sore and may act like it for several more days, but should recover quickly and be in a better mood by day 2.
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I found this footage on a lost sim card so please excuse that it’s out of order with some of the Crepes’ other footage. This is the actual day that they had surgery, and how the kittens looked and felt after their surgeries. We talk a little bit about kitten spay aftercare and the cat neuter procedure. The girl kittens had paper plate cones to keep their spay area protected, and Butter the boy kitten was bouncing around like a little tazmanian devil, obviously not that bothered by his neutering. Enjoy!
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