…I hardly thought twice about the things I had to do on the farm: driving cattle, castrations, dehorning, and I did my fair share of butchering too. Nowadays I ask myself from both the perspective of the old me and the new me, what does humane mean in the way it is being used...
which brings me to my main point. The various male behaviors that I have described, including inter-male aggression and sexual aggression, may not be completely suppressed and may persist for years following castration of a super-male. It is possible that...
Different to queens, progestins were only occasionally used in male cats, both as pills or injectables. Especially the description of a mammary tumor as a possible side effect of progestin treatment in a male cat is noteworthy [74], [75], [76]. GnRH-agonists, especially DSRI, have been...
Risk factors for serious surgical complications in canine cryptorchid castration Emma Faulkner and others, VCA Animal Hospital, Los Angeles Cryptorchidism is a common congenital abnormality in dogs, occurring more frequently in small breeds. The condition may be associated with testicular torsion and neop...
“Where there was a tongue, now there is a useless penis, a double castration and silencing. Putting flesh in the mouth also suggests that the enemy can be eaten. Cannibalism makes the soldier strong at the attacker’s expense.” So this was, in a way, the embalmer expressing her opinion...
The only solution is execution, not castration’.76 She saw transsexualism/transvestism as yet another means of raping women, of males using women for their own sexual gratification against women’s consent. She continued that ‘if rape does not demand the reward of death, what crime is ...
models of AD.Gonadectomy of both male and female mice simulates gonadal steroid depletion that occurs in human reproductive aging. It also enables a direct comparison between the sexes that is less confounded by differential, activational effects of gonadal hormones in the male versus female brain....
Freud believed that the child’s desire for the opposite-sex parent could lead to a sense of rivalry and even a fear of punishment from the same-sex parent, which he called “castration anxiety” in boys. To deal with these complex emotions, children may repress their feelings and identify...
Neutering, also known as castration in males and spaying in females, is something that can only be handled by your vet as it usually requires surgery. In males, this removes the testicles and in females, it removes the ovaries and the uterus. The primary reason for doing this is to ...
Neutering, desexing, or castrating males (these are all different ways of expressing the term castration) is commonly done from 5 -6 months of age, before the cat reaches sexual maturity. There is however, much ongoing debate about the best age to neuter a male cat.[1] Many cat welfar...