Quote:We got a Bengal Kitten a few months back and took her in to get "fixed" today.  When my wife went to pick her up, the vet was kind of "out of breath".  The cat got away from them and was running around the facility.

 

What is kind of ironic is that the instructions from the vet are "no running or jumping for 10 days".  The thing is, that's exactly what this breed of cat does.  At 6 months old she can jump from the floor onto the kitchen counter or the table without any effort.  She loves to jump up onto my desk then get up on the window sill that my desk faces.

 

How do you keep a cat like that from "running or jumping for 10 days"?

 

By the way, as with most of my pets she is named after a Jaguar player.  Her name is Jalyn.

 

This reminds me of what happened when I adopted my cat. She and her twin brother were fixed the day before. He acted like nothing happened, running and jumping and playing with toys. Certainly it takes more than 24 hours to recover from neutering, but he did not care. It made me wonder if spaying is more painful than neutering because my kitten had no interest in fun and games for a couple days. She started to get active before her first appointment, however, and loves playing with toy mice. BTW they are not Bengal cats.

 

Wow. Daisy can't jump on my bed very well. Without a running start, she sometimes misses it. She is "at least 6 months, maybe 7" and small for her age, according to the vet.

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