Oh dear. I take it a visit to the vet is imminent?
I feel rather lucky to have ended up with males. It is so much more straightforward with them. Though I knew when Scaredy Cat's hormones started coming in because Bus-stop Cat suddenly started hissing at him. Now the only problem is the neighbourhood toms, who come into the garden to have screaming matches with Bus-stop Cat through the insect screens. The other two, having been made eunuchs before puberty, do not have the territorial imperative ingrained, and either flee (Scaredy Cat) or sit and watch with interest (Lap Cat).
Finally, I reply. Husband has been kind enough to gift me with another cold, ie, a month after the last one. I have now stopped sneezing enough to type.
Vet is online for Thursday - and thanks for the reminder, because I must chase them up since we had to add Smalls to the surgery list as she went into heat two days after Bigsie!! The level of oestrogen in the house has reached critical limits.
And yes, this was one of the reasons to have male cats :) (Though even more because neutered males are very affectionate with each other, especially siblings. But the kittenz we gots are the kittenz we gots, basically.) What has shocked me is the lack of gentleman callers: not a single male howling outside, even when both of them were pumping out pheromones to a ludicrous degree. I would have thought there were enough stray and hence unfixed toms around to have made our house the local brothel stop. But no, no suitors for these two. For which I am very grateful.
The Beastie Boys are indeed very sweet with each other. In rainy weather they cat-heap on the nearest soft surface, and chase each other, and rip each others' fur out in a friendly way
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A cat can go into heat any time after 8 weeks, almost always before 6 months. I hope you're going to get her nuetered. They seem to always find a way out.
Hey, Saraid - nice to hear from you :) You have those figures switched, though: vets will spay from 8 weeks on, but cats going into heat before four months is unheard of (I quote my vet there) and six months to a year is more likely. Hence we've revised the ages of both cats up, since the second one went into heat two days after my post!!
And yes, they are of course both booked in for surgery. They have not yet found a way out of the house, though: we are operating a sophisticated double-door airlock system and confined the poor things back into one room in the house. Plus there seems to be a lack of amorous males around, for which I am deeply grateful: being kept up by the howling of sex-crazed cats would not endear us to the neighbours.
Time to spay them both, since the second followed the first into heat two days later! It shall be done by the end of this week, for which they will both thank me when they grow up, because teenage pregnancy is not quite as much fun as their hormones are telling them it is.
You see that icon you did there? That summed up my Thursday utterly, which was begun with washing machine men failing to deliver, continued with second kitten going into heat, and ended with a screaming match with Mr Gloriana, who cannot close a door to save his life. (Which becomes more problematic when there are two kittens in heat in your household.) By the end of the day, it was a blessing that I had not commited homicide or suicide, despite the temptations to both.
Other than both of us coming down with colds (he works in a ghetto of overcrowding, where they pass diseases back and forth all the time, otherwise known as the tech industry), life has since calmed down a little, and kittens, thankfully, appear to be going out of heat again. Which, since they are due for spaying on Thursday, is all to the good.
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I feel rather lucky to have ended up with males. It is so much more straightforward with them. Though I knew when Scaredy Cat's hormones started coming in because Bus-stop Cat suddenly started hissing at him. Now the only problem is the neighbourhood toms, who come into the garden to have screaming matches with Bus-stop Cat through the insect screens. The other two, having been made eunuchs before puberty, do not have the territorial imperative ingrained, and either flee (Scaredy Cat) or sit and watch with interest (Lap Cat).
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Vet is online for Thursday - and thanks for the reminder, because I must chase them up since we had to add Smalls to the surgery list as she went into heat two days after Bigsie!! The level of oestrogen in the house has reached critical limits.
And yes, this was one of the reasons to have male cats :) (Though even more because neutered males are very affectionate with each other, especially siblings. But the kittenz we gots are the kittenz we gots, basically.) What has shocked me is the lack of gentleman callers: not a single male howling outside, even when both of them were pumping out pheromones to a ludicrous degree. I would have thought there were enough stray and hence unfixed toms around to have made our house the local brothel stop. But no, no suitors for these two. For which I am very grateful.
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And yes, they are of course both booked in for surgery. They have not yet found a way out of the house, though: we are operating a sophisticated double-door airlock system and confined the poor things back into one room in the house. Plus there seems to be a lack of amorous males around, for which I am deeply grateful: being kept up by the howling of sex-crazed cats would not endear us to the neighbours.
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Other than both of us coming down with colds (he works in a ghetto of overcrowding, where they pass diseases back and forth all the time, otherwise known as the tech industry), life has since calmed down a little, and kittens, thankfully, appear to be going out of heat again. Which, since they are due for spaying on Thursday, is all to the good.
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I took the icon picture in Paris. That pigeon was so cheeky!
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