Came north to see my other boys today 
Feel like they’ve put on loads of weight, when actually I’m just used to Jax and my mums two small cats 
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They grow so quickly 
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Cracking picture 
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The vet said if he starts licking his bits to put it on for a bit, it’s off now and he’s left it alone.
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I did work experience with a vet in my late teens and performed quite a few cat castrations myself. It’s a very quick procedure (often around 2 minutes) and there are only small slits made in the scrotum - just large enough to squeeze the testes through. No stitches are necessary and we never used to bother with a protective collar apart from the occasional animal which constantly licked the area.
Spaying requires actual surgery and stitches so it was more common to provide a collar, just in case. Our female cats have never needed a collar after being spayed, though.
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My other two boys didn’t bother with the wound, Jax was when he got in but seems to not care now so won’t use it again.
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Simple procedure or not, if I took my cat to the vet and found out their castration had been performed by a teenager on work experience I would be absolutely mortified 
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I was Vets 4 Pets but they robbed me blind and mis medicated (didn’t factor in his growth so he never healed from flu).
Anyway; went to the local not for profit (Animal Trust) and they’ve been amazing. The vet nurse today was so nice and professional, very nice nature.
Left great feedback at reception for her.
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I’d actually been volunteering there for getting on for 2 years before I was allowed to do simple procedures and was always supervised. From what I remember (and we’re talking over 40 years ago now) it was nearly always the nurses that did castrations, anyway.
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Animal trust doesn’t charge for check ups (I’ve had two), his vaccines and chip was £85, and then neuter was £100.
Then it was only £30 for his medicine to clear his flu.
Not sure how that stands in the grand scheme.
Vets 4 Pets was £40-50 for each of the 3 visits, plus medication costs (eye drops, amoxicillin, pain relief, tablet tool to break them 
) cost me more for that, than it has at Animal Trust. It’s crazy.
But he’s a happy boy.
An hour watching Agatha with me purring his head off. He’s usually gone within 10 minutes 
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It’s that time of year when paws get cold after playing out
Of course, by “playing out” I mean “doing extremely important cat things that humans wouldn’t understand”.
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Mine (Chester & Leo) are mice gathering machines at the moment. I’m working overtime to release them back into the wild.
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This is perfectly normal, and cheaper than a body suit.