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at what age do cats go in heat?
periods
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Posted: 1:09:15 PM 3/19/2008
I am a first time cat owner. Do cats have a period like a dog?
My cat has been going outside at 9pm and returning at our door at 6am. I just don't want to come home to a litter of kittens. Because I am waiting for her appointment to spay her. Could someone please help.
rainbowzoo622
Posted: 1:20:02 PM 3/19/2008
Cats go into heat for the first time around 6 months of age, but don' think you can safely leave her surgery until that time, in can occur a month or two earlier. A cat this young is too young to have a litter and often don't make great mothers. Most vets will wait until 6 months of age for an indoor cat, but if she is going outdoors all night long, many vets will spay a female as young as 4 months old.
rainbowzoo622
Posted: 1:20:37 PM 3/19/2008
Also not cats in heat do not have periods.
Minniyar
Posted: 1:26:05 PM 3/19/2008
They go into heat, but they don't bleed the way a dog does. How old is she? Most cats I know have gone into heat before they were 6 months old. If she's older than 3-4 months old, you can either go ahead and get her spayed, or you need to keep her inside 100% of the time. Cats are whats called 'induced ovulators'. That means the physical act of mating is what causes their ovaries to release the eggs... As soon as they go into heat, they're amenable to mating, which means by the time you realize your cat is in heat it may be too late.
Never trust a tall dwarf... he's lying about something.
Posted: 6:59:52 PM 3/25/2008
NEVER!NEVER!NEVER! Spay a cat or dog It is not good to prevert its natural instixs. IF every one spayed their Pets they will soon be extinct.
MaxandAllie
Posted: 7:04:01 PM 3/25/2008
Jeez CatClyde what planet are you from? Cats going extinct from people being responsible and spaying/neutering their pets is about as likely as you growing a brain and giving somebody USEFUL advice for a change. Go find yourself another playground.
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catlover
Posted: 12:04:17 PM 3/26/2008
sigh...if someone could be banned based solely on stupidity-catclyde would be the first to go.

(are you SURE we can't vote people off the island,lol?!!!)
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andy Rooney
Posted: 12:08:01 AM 4/12/2008
I dont care how many insults you rude two throw me, I BELIVE THAT CATS AND OTHER PETS SHOULD NEVER BE NEWTRED whether you like it or not! I am glad that I at least dont come from the planet (or galaxy at that matter) that YOU came from. People are going to have diferent beleifs than you in the real world so GET USED TO IT
pen
Posted: 11:27:39 AM 4/12/2008
Your cat should never be left out all night, she could be stolen by a psycho, hit by a car, killed by a dog, or impregnated, maybe picked up by animal control, or injured by a diseased cat.
If cats are not spayed they will cycle over and over again, until they get pregnant.
Your best bet, is to make the appt with the vet ASAP, if you hav'nt done so.
CatClyde, go and work in a shelter and see if you have the same ignorant, uninformed point of view.
I need a bigger bed...
Posted: 10:30:31 PM 4/13/2008
OK pen, i will try to see a animal shelter If you advise me to. Please take no offence but i will stick to my reguler idea until I go there. Have a good day

(as you can see "catlover", when I am attack harshly I defend harshly, But when attacked softly I defend softly. I hope you learned something)
catlover
Posted: 12:00:25 AM 4/14/2008
Hmmm...I think I might have mentioned that before about shelters.

catlover
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Posted: 9:42:32 AM 3/22/2008
" Have you been to your local shelter lately? I can tell you that in my area, ALL shelters are overrun with cats! One shelter alone has 400+ cats. The other, well over 200. They even offer special incentives to get people to adopt cats because there is simply not enough room and not enough money to care for them all. You might want to do a little research before spouting off like that."


Hmmm...actually, I think I might have mentioned the dangers of leaving a cat outside, too.

catlover
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Posted: 8:31:42 AM 3/30/2008
CatClyde-I have many cats inside,and not ONE of them is "uncontrolable". And leaving a cat outside "just one time" IS enough to get it killed. You obviously should have learned about the danger of cars. There is also the risk of being attacked by other animals, getting poisoned, etc.

Have you ever even BEEN to a shelter? Do you realize how many homeless cats are out there in shelters waiting to be adopted? How many feral cats are out there, spreading diseases around, like feline leukemia and feline AIDS?
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andy Rooney
Posted: 11:57:49 PM 4/14/2008
Yes, you did mention animal shelters before BUT while you were at it you would call me an idiot, stupid, brainless and other stuff like that, why should I have listen to you if you were plain RUDE.

I am sorry if I offended you but that is what I think about it
catlover
Posted: 6:41:09 AM 4/15/2008
Oh, ok. I can call you ignorant and uninformed like Pen did, but not brainless. Got it. (sheesh...where do these people come from?)
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andy Rooney
Posted: 6:54:25 PM 4/16/2008
You also called me STUPID and said that I should not own any animals, and 'MaxandAlli' refered to me as an IT not as a HE.

***Edited By: CatClyde on 4/16/2008 8:48:43 PM***
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MaxandAllie
Posted: 7:26:29 PM 4/16/2008
Actually, that was ME calling you "IT". Catlover just followed suit. We couldn't tell if you were a HE or a SHE we just knew you had some irresponsible views on cat ownership and we grew tired of typing HE/SHE. But I will give you credit for recently learning to spell and write in full sentences. And for your opinion against declawing. Aside from the ignorance about spaying and neutering, you are growing to be less annoying. Please feel free to continue to overpopulate the planet with your cat's babies who don't manage to get run over by cars. But do some research before you advise others that spaying/neutering is the wrong thing to do.
Rottluvr
Posted: 1:26:14 AM 4/17/2008
Keeping an animal as a pet is not natural. If you have pets you are going against nature, so why do you find it so objectionable to alter a pet. If you think being a responsible pet owner goes against nature then, no you shouldn't own pets. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Just for the record, I am not an AR activist. I own 3 cats and 2 dogs and all are fixed.
Posted: 10:31:28 PM 4/17/2008
I dont think you guys understood me correctlly. i meant BODLY. Keeping a cat inside dosint change there natural body, THAT is what I meant.
rainbowzoo622
Posted: 8:28:00 PM 4/18/2008
"I dont think you guys understood me correctlly. i meant BODLY. Keeping a cat inside dosint change there natural body, THAT is what I meant."
That's funny, I could have swore you said that newtering a cat would pervert its natural instincts. Instincts are different than BODLY.
Instincts refer to patterns of behavior. By spaying a cat you rid her of the instinct to stick her rear in the air and yeowl like she is dying. Obviously, that instinct is a keeper! I love it when my cat keeps me up all night yeowling!
And I just hate it when I come accross cats with missing uterti! It is so visually obvious that they are missing some vital part of their body, like a leg or tail, and that they are suffer for it.
Simplistic view of the way the universe works aside, my belief is that s you trust in a God or higher power, then that mean you should TRUST that he will works his way in the end no matter how us human beings mess up. I am certain there are no kitten souls in heaven suffering for the lack of a physical body. Chances are any kitten souls in heaven would be happier there than they would be here anyways, considering how the majority of cats live in the world these days.
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Rottluvr
Posted: 5:13:38 AM 4/19/2008
I think you mean "physically". Pets are domesticated and therefore molded by man not nature. I've known people who argue that keeping a cat indoors is more cruel than surgically altering it. They back up their argument much better than you. Who's to say the physical damage is worse than pshycological. I personally believe cats should be kept indoors for safety reasons but it's true that indoor cats are more likely to suffer from obesity and boredom. If you keep your cat indoors and don't mind the behaviors that come with having an unaltered pet then that's great, good for you! However, despite all attempts, there are cats that do "escape" and bring unwanted kittens into the world. Thousands die each year b/c their owner's don't want to deal with behaviors that would have been remedied by spaying or neutering at an ealy age.
Posted: 8:17:04 PM 4/20/2008
keeping a cat as a pet wont change it phisically, and when I say 'fixing' it will change its natrual instinct I mean the...well... repruducing instinct, keep an animal as a pet wont change its....'well, you know what' instinct. unless you 'fix' it.
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