Iron-deficiency anemia, the most common form of anemia, is a decrease in the number of red blood cells caused by too little iron. Without sufficient iron, your body can't produce enough hemoglobin, a substance in red blood cells that makes it possible for them to carry oxygen to the body's tissues.ron in plant foods such as lentils, beans, and spinach is nonheme iron. This is the form of iron added to iron-enriched and iron-fortified foods. Our bodies are less efficient at absorbing nonheme iron, but most dietary iron is nonheme iron. 1  1.
Newborn kittens are tiny and cute, but they grow up startlingly quickly. Many female kittens actually will have their first heats as young as 4 months. To spare your sweet little furball any possibility of pregnancy so young, you can consider spaying as early as 8 weeks old.
Shelters canât wait until kittens are six months old before neutering and spaying. They donât have the room, and it would deprive potential adopters of experiencing the joys of their kittenâs kittenhood. Studies have shown that kittens can be spayed and neutered as early as 8 weeks of age, with no deleterious effect.Your cat, at 16 weeks of age, can be spayed with no worries at all.Regards, Arnold Plotnick, DVM.his is because if a kitten is adopted out to a home at the age of 8 or 9 weeks, a significant percentage of the adopters fail to spay or neuter their cat, even if the adoption fee includes a free spay and neuter.