Male Cats After My Female Cat

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Just locked in female cat (a kitten almost) because the male cats are coming around. How long does she have to be kept in?? Don't recall how long the female remains an attraction.

-- (veggie@ourplace.com), February 28, 2002

Answers

If the cat is old enough to be in heat, it is old enough to be spayed and should be ASAP. I don't remember the length of time they are in heat, but they will cycle every 3 mos if they don't get pregnant and that is a nuisance.

-- beckie (none@this.time), February 28, 2002.

Cats are unique. They can go in and out of estrus when they feel like it. If she does not get bred, she may stay in heat for 3 weeks or longer. She may go out of this heat cycle and right back into another until she is bred or spayed. Get the little girl into the Vet as soon as you can. Good luck, keep the ear muffs handy! LOL LQ

-- Little Quacker (carouselxing@juno.com), February 28, 2002.

I have never had a female cat stay in heat for longer than 8 or 10 years, after which she tired of that condition for upwards of a week. If you want kittens (we occasionally do!), let the suitor satisfy her yearnings. If not, act as the above intelligent people with experience suggest - spay her. Then you can get a bumper sticker to offset the ubiquitous ones that say "I (heart) NY, or "I Lovermont". or any other of the cutesy "I loves". Your sticker will say "I (spade) my cat!" Way to go! And, of course, GL!

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), February 28, 2002.

LOL Brad!!! yup........spay her or have kittens or be tortured for years.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 28, 2002.

As above. A female cat is a pregnant cat - sooner rather than later. If she loves you, then she'll give you every opportunity to do the deed yourself before she outsources the service, but one way or another she'll get pregnant - built into the mechanism.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), March 01, 2002.


Your cat will live longer and a healthier life if you get her fixed also.

-- Suzy in Bama (slgt@yahoo.com), March 01, 2002.

Cats cycle every two weeks. They are in standing heat for three to four days out of that cycle. Cycle is altered only by the dead of winter. Most (but not all) outside cats will cease to cycle for a variable length of time in the dead of winter due to hormone levels falling in response to day period and cold. They generally begin cycling again sometime in late December or in January, hence the flush of spring kittens. Just thought I'd put in my two cents worth. Housecats often will cycle year round due to the warmth in the house and the effect of electric lighting on the pineal gland right behind the eyes.

-- Sandra Nelson (Magin@starband.net), March 01, 2002.

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