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| 2193.1 | You just described almost all the symptoms!! | PENPAL::TRACHMAN | ZhivagoCats, Ltd..The Inn is Full..264-8298 | Wed Feb 01 1989 09:16 | 4 |
| Your cat is in heat - she needs to go to the Vet to be spayed or
she will repeat these actions frequently!
E.T.
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| 2193.2 | Sounds like spay time to me | WITNES::HANNULA | Round Up the Usual Suspects | Wed Feb 01 1989 11:46 | 4 |
| My vet had told me that when a cat is in heat, if you grab her by
the scruff of the neck, she will "get into mating position". The
howling is a good sign, as well as rubbing up against your legs,
and trying to get outside.
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| 2193.3 | Spay while in heat? | SALEM::DEFRANCO_J | | Wed Feb 01 1989 11:54 | 6 |
| Can a cat be spayed while in heat? I always thought this could
not be done due to the possibility of excess blood loss at this
time.
Jeanne
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| 2193.4 | Yes | STAR::BARTH | | Wed Feb 01 1989 12:04 | 7 |
| re: .3
Yes, a cat can be spayed while in heat. In fact, a cat can even
be spayed if pregnant. I believe it's a little more expensive,
possibly because it's a little more dangerous?
Karen, Tristan and Tenzing.
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| 2193.5 | | YOSMTE::CORDESBRO_JO | | Wed Feb 01 1989 15:06 | 15 |
| re: getting into mating position
If she is really in heat she will squat on her hocks with her tail
deviated to the side.
Estrus does not involve shedding any tissue or blood. I believe
that the female's uterus becomes swollen while in season, and most
vets prefer to wait until the cat is out of season.
She will probably be in season for at least seven days. You should
plan to spay her after that because she can come back in after a
couple of weeks. Each season gets more and more pronounced (if
you know what I mean ;^}).
Jo
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| 2193.6 | | CIRCUS::KOLLING | Karen, Sweetie, & Holly; in Calif. | Wed Feb 01 1989 16:32 | 8 |
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Holly went into heat before her appointment to be spayed, and the
vet said to wait until after she came out of heat. I _think_ he
said something about the internal organs being swollen so the operation
was more difficult when the cat is in heat. Since Sweetie has only
had a vasectomy, they had a fine time waiting. Sure glad I'm not
a female cat. Feline anatomy really is destiny.
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| 2193.7 | JFCL howled continuously for four days | CADSYS::RICHARDSON | | Thu Feb 02 1989 13:10 | 13 |
| JFCL had her one and only heat a week or so before she was to be
spayed, and it lasted for four days - I didn't sleep for four days! My
normally quiet kitty howled almost continuously, day and night, and of
course was not allowed to go outside - I even put her in the basement
(Nebula, too; their litter box is down there) behind a closed door so I
could try to get some sleep, but it didn't help much. Needless to say,
I got Nebula spayed BEFORE her first heat - Neb is half-Siamese, and is
a noisy critter anyhow, with a big Siamese voice.
PS - Some people would like it if human female anatomy were still
destiny, too! (But that's for another notes file.)
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| 2193.8 | Sage has come of age | BIGSUR::GRAFTON_JI | | Thu Feb 02 1989 15:23 | 9 |
| Well, this must be it for Sage. This morning my son started to
pet her and then said, "Mom, how come Sage has her hind end up in
the air?" Me: "mumble, mumble, don't know, mumble, mumble. Sage
can't go outside today." :-)
And as I left the house, Sage was loving up the doorjamb...(from
the inside)
Jill
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| 2193.9 | We still tease him about this | PMROAD::HANNULA | Round Up the Usual Suspects | Thu Feb 02 1989 17:05 | 11 |
| > This morning my son started to
> pet her and then said, "Mom, how come Sage has her hind end up in
> the air?" Me: "mumble, mumble, don't know, mumble, mumble. Sage
> can't go outside today." :-)
When my mom's cat, BeBee was in heat, my lettle brother, then in
2nd grade asked why BeBee was acting so strange, and was constantly
trying to rub against his leg. Mom gave the generic response "BeBee
is in heat". Whereupon my brother asked "So, How Hot is she gonna get"
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| 2193.10 | What do you call this step anyway? | BIGSUR::GRAFTON_JI | | Thu Feb 02 1989 18:21 | 7 |
| Reminds me of the time Sammie went into heat before she was spayed.
She was pitiful--calling, meowing, backing up to everything and
anything. What a sight she was! Well, the kids found that if you
rub her at the base of the tail she would do this fancy little peddling
step with her hind legs. Their response: "Mom, look! Sammie's
dancing." Poor cat got more dances and less satisfaction than anyone
I know.
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| 2193.11 | | CRUISE::NDC | | Fri Feb 03 1989 08:19 | 6 |
| re: anatomy is destiny
It wasn't so long ago (turn of the century) when it was common
practice to remove the ovaries in women who refused to behave
appropriately! It did cause personality changes of course.
(shiver!!!)
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| 2193.12 | what a discovery! | LESCOM::KALLIS | Anger's no replacement for reason. | Fri Feb 03 1989 10:44 | 13 |
| Re calling:
My first Siamese, the grand old lady, Angelica, I acquired 1) as
an adult, and [3 less 1]) unspayed. [sorry, the keyboard's flaky]
As any Siamese owner knows, banshees can take wailing lessons from
Siamese cats; this is doubled in calling. As Angelica was an indoor
cat (and as the males in the house were exmales), she wasn't getting
"satisfied." So, in the middle of one night, she discovered if she
jumped into an empty bath tub, she could amplify her wails by a
significant factor. It'd have pulled someone out of a deep coma.
...
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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