Oh Please, No
November 29th, 2006 - 11:42 am
Today I needed to become educated on felines in heat. I’ve never had a female cat. Not on purpose. It just always worked out that my cats were male. So needless to say, my only education of felines in heat has come from reading about it. Thanks to YouTube, I have now seen a variety of cats of differing ages in heat, and I am prepared to state that Myu is behaving in a hormonal way.
She isn’t doing the butt-in-the-air, rear-leg-dance … yet … but she is chirping, meowing all the time, rolling around and rubbing on things, and licking her nether regions at every opportunity. Whatever she is “saying” is attracting the attention of Ronin. I am watching them like a hawk. At the first sign of butt-in-the-air from Myu, they will have to learn to live with separation. We do not need a batch of inbred kittens.
I wouldn’t think a four month old kitten would come into heat, but she is most definitely acting in a heat-like manner. What do I know about female kittens anyway, having never owned one. The vet better be ready to operate on one or both of them ASAP, or yeah … I’ll be going elsewhere next week, and I’ll tell her as much. Let’s hope whatever it is doesn’t progress any further during the coming days. If it does, the vet gets a phone call about something needing to be done.
I am hoping she’s just behaving oddly because she finally was able to jump into the open kitchen window today and look outside and the weather is changing, which I know can make cats act oddly. I’m going to allow myself to believe this delusion until I can’t anymore, because really … don’t need any kittens, and I can’t possibly watch them 24/7. 
5 Responses to “Oh Please, No”
You shouldn’t worry about the siblings have sex, as they often will go through the motions, (dry humps), without any bad repercussions. As far as knowing if she is really in heat, just remember that they all don’t stick their butt high up, but instead just lay down and simply scoot their rear legs back some for emphasis. Then there are two things they will do to let you know for sure.
1) They tend to converse with you over their shoulder, while lying down. (Like to say - here it is. lol)
2) When you bump her with your foot, (not kick), she won’t go away, and just keeps mewing.
Otherwise she may just be a friendly, over affectionate cat.
p.s. This is Lin’s brother, Jerry. Thought I’d leave a comment. ïŠ
Hey Jerry!!!
I’m just not sure. She is affectionate, but not quite THIS affectionate. I’m still hoping it’s just the cooler weather. LOL!
They go to the vet’s on Saturday anyway, so hopefully I can convince the vet that we may need to bump up the operations. I don’t think we are going to make it to January, and there can be no accidents. Sort of makes taking in homeless kittens a moot point if you produce more.
LOL. Hopeful you don’t have any of those accidents!
We oncw has a cat that never went into heat; and even those she lived for eight years, she never got friendly untill after five. She never really scratched, but liked to do that angry hiss thing, that raises the hairs on the back of your neck.
Best of luck.
House-bound females in heat make the most blood-curdling screeching sounds you’re ever likely to hear. I can’t predict how much her brother’s presence might modify her behavior, but I wouldn’t expect too much. She’s plenty old enough to begin reproducing. Usually, by the time folks bring in their pets for neutering, they’re already pregnant, so if the snooty lady won’t work with you, the phonebook is full of competitors. My advice is move as quickly as you can.
As for male cats, personality has at least as much to do with behavior as does neutering. An aggressive cat will still likely be aggressive after the fact and a gentle male kitten will likely remain so even without neutering. I’d still recommend getting him fixed.
After talking to some friends who have experienced it first hand, they say there’s no way I would not know just from the loud and obnoxious noise. So I guess we aren’t there yet, but I’m still nervous. There’s a low-cost clinic in town, the Humane Society uses them, and that’s where we’ll be heading if the vet wants to put it off again. We can even get their rabies shot there, so then I can just drop off their paperwork at the vet’s to get my registration tags. I’d rather she do it, because at the clinic, they do it quick and you get back a cat that JUST had surgery … so if something goes wrong after the fact, it’d be an emergency trip to a real vet rather than people keeping an eye on them for a few hours and making sure all is well before they go home. But still, it needs to be done very soon.
I think Ronin is always going to be a bit “much” on the aggression thing. He’s been better the last two days, probably because he jumped on me with teeth and claws bared while I was sleeping and got smacked up side the head for it. Didn’t mean to hit him, but when you’re asleep and something attacks you, it isn’t like you take a moment to think about it. I just jumped up, arms and legs flailing. I haven’t felt a tooth or claw out of him since, and he’s been a lot more affectionate. I guess I demonstrated my dominance.
And he’s getting fixed too. We have far too many roaming, non-fixed females in our neighborhood. He’d just want out all the time, and when a cat wants out, a cat usually gets out. They are sneaky that way. Then there’s that whole spraying thing I would like to avoid. That I have had experience with. Yuck.