Comments on: Cats In Heat: Two Answers to Two Questions http://www.paws-and-effect.com/2009/11/08/cats-in-heat-two-answers-to-two-questions/ Advice by cats, for cats and their people Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:18:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: judy http://www.paws-and-effect.com/2009/11/08/cats-in-heat-two-answers-to-two-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-7975 judy Sat, 29 May 2010 23:07:50 +0000 http://www.paws-and-effect.com/?p=511#comment-7975 Why in the world would anyone want to contribute to an already over-populated pet world? I am currently fostering a beautiful purebred Chocolate Point Siamese who turned up on someone's doorstep. Advertising, notifying shelters and the police and checking her for a microchip were fruitless. She is currently in season and screeching up a storm as only a Siamese can and is due to be spayed next week. There are too many cats (look up any breed of cat on Petfinders.Com and you'll see hundreds,sometimes thousands of every breed in the cat fancy.) Please re-think your intention to breed. First, it is not as profitable as you are hoping it will be; second, living with a screaming cat 24/7 is beyond the tolerance of anyone who is not deaf and finally, if you are not prepared to take back a no longer wanted cat, you are abdicating your responsibility and insuring that the cat will turn up on the street or in a shelter with a probably euthanasia as its fate. Why in the world would anyone want to contribute to an already over-populated pet world? I am currently fostering a beautiful purebred Chocolate Point Siamese who turned up on someone’s doorstep. Advertising, notifying shelters and the police and checking her for a microchip were fruitless. She is currently in season and screeching up a storm as only a Siamese can and is due to be spayed next week.
There are too many cats (look up any breed of cat on Petfinders.Com and you’ll see hundreds,sometimes thousands of every breed in the cat fancy.)
Please re-think your intention to breed. First, it is not as profitable as you are hoping it will be; second, living with a screaming cat 24/7 is beyond the tolerance of anyone who is not deaf and finally, if you are not prepared to take back a no longer wanted cat, you are abdicating your responsibility and insuring that the cat will turn up on the street or in a shelter with a probably euthanasia as its fate.

]]> By: Mel Herndon http://www.paws-and-effect.com/2009/11/08/cats-in-heat-two-answers-to-two-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-6665 Mel Herndon Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:03:43 +0000 http://www.paws-and-effect.com/?p=511#comment-6665 Here is another factor to consider. Cats (Queens) can contract pyometra. See the link for an explanation. This is an excellent reason to spay if the cat isn't going to be used in your breeding program. If you choose to keep her as a breeder then consider getting another siamese male that has been neutered. When she comes into heat then put her in with the male and let them breed. This will stimulate the female to go back out of heat. We breed ragdolls and they are definitely prone to pyometra. I have no information on your preferred breed. Best of luck! And please do find a good mentor. Consider joining a local cat club, I am sure you can meet someone there that has more breeding experience. Here is another factor to consider. Cats (Queens) can contract pyometra. See the link for an explanation. This is an excellent reason to spay if the cat isn’t going to be used in your breeding program. If you choose to keep her as a breeder then consider getting another siamese male that has been neutered. When she comes into heat then put her in with the male and let them breed. This will stimulate the female to go back out of heat. We breed ragdolls and they are definitely prone to pyometra. I have no information on your preferred breed.

Best of luck! And please do find a good mentor. Consider joining a local cat club, I am sure you can meet someone there that has more breeding experience.

]]> By: Edward Wright, Sr. http://www.paws-and-effect.com/2009/11/08/cats-in-heat-two-answers-to-two-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-6552 Edward Wright, Sr. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:25:41 +0000 http://www.paws-and-effect.com/?p=511#comment-6552 Well, there is the obvious. Get her a Tom ! :-) BTW: Doc Emily(Kittie Doc Superior) tells me that cats are opportunists and will go into heat when for some reason best known only to cats, they want to go in to heat. I am a big believer that unless this is a show quality example of a breed and you are going to breed, get them fixed. A good time to fix is at or around the first heat. There are far to many kitties and not enough people to care for them. There is an old myth that a Queen should have one litter of kittens before neutering. Horse Feathers!. I have a couple of neutered Queens who have never experienced matrimonial bliss and they have turned out fine. My kids send Purrrrrs and headbumps to your kids. Ed, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Piesack, and Fur Face. Well, there is the obvious. Get her a Tom ! :-)
BTW: Doc Emily(Kittie Doc Superior) tells me that cats are opportunists and will go into heat when for some reason best known only to cats, they want to go in to heat.
I am a big believer that unless this is a show quality example of a breed and you are going to breed, get them fixed. A good time to fix is at or around the first heat. There are far to many kitties and not enough people to care for them.
There is an old myth that a Queen should have one litter of kittens before neutering. Horse Feathers!. I have a couple of neutered Queens who have never experienced matrimonial bliss and they have turned out fine.
My kids send Purrrrrs and headbumps to your kids.
Ed, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Piesack, and Fur Face.

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