My 5 month old kitten (breeding queen) is in heat! Help!

My little girl is in heat. The poor little thing is so affectionate at the moment and I've been devoting lots of time and cuddles to her, especially during the moments of calling. She's been waking us up at night and in the mornings which none of us actually mind at all!

None the less, I worry about her having to put up with this for a week every 2-3 weeks! It can't be nice for her Spaying is not an option as she is a breeding queen and will be mated between 10 and 11 months of age. We're experienced with the breed and she has come from a perfect line. It was an honor to be given a breeding queen as her breed is actually incredibly rare However, this is our first little queen and our breeding 'career' is just kicking off! Is there anything at all that we can do for her so that her 'moments' aren't so intense? She also has very swollen glands behind her teats and they seem to be a little sore, although they could just be sensitive.

 

dollyfiz-you beat me by 8 minutes.

RooRshack's post was completely out of line and totally uncalled for.
Why bother even posting.

Anyway sorry about your 5 month old going into heat, but the future looks pretty exciting. I want to see lots of kitten pics.

Good luck until she is old enough to act on her "moments".

 

Thanks Keenman

It's not that being in heat hurts them but you can certainly see that they're uncomfortable. You can see why I'd feel bad for her if she has to go through this every couple of weeks for the next 5 months!

I've another breeding queen coming at the end of next month. It's exciting because she's from a brilliant line, probably the best of the breed in this part of the world.

You'll see kitten pics! I think they're about 7 months away at the earliest though

I have just read up that my vet might be able to administer hormones that should stop her coming into heat temporarily. I can't do it whilst she's in heat so might give my vet a call next week.

 

dolly, I've always heard (and experienced) that a female does not go "out" of heat until she has bred...that is not to say that she has to get pregnant; but that in order for her to quit being miserable (and thus making everyone around her miserable) she needs to get her some.

I do feel for you though. My BB went into heat before I got her fixed (on Valentine's Day, no less - lol) and even tho' for 2 weeks she yowled like the house was afire, she did quiet down (some) after that, and continued to be in heat until she was fixed. Total time of being in heat was a little over 1 month. Much longer and I was going to have to go to the Mental Health center.

edit: It took that long to get her fixed because it took that long to get an appt!

 

Aww bless her, i had female cats some time ago, and it seemed as if they was in heat more then not, i did wonder if it was uncomfortable for them, in the end i had them spaying, they was indoor cats, so i didnt intend on breeding them.

good luck with ur little queen tho

 

Thank you

 

Aww! She seems to have quietened down loads already. She's still showing the signs, but doesn't seem to be calling so much. She's actually not too loud so she's not driven us round the bend yet! I can't let her have a litter until she's 12 months as it isn't good for them and also she's so tiny. I was actually hoping to leave it until she was even older, but as she's calling already we'll mate her at 10 months.

So I've got another 5 months of this hot little kitty! Is your girl okay now?

 

Honey, my BB is just a wonderful, fat and sassy cat. When I have looked up bob-tailed cats, it always refers to the breed Japanese Bob-Tail, and a main characteristic is the "roundness" of the cat...which BB certainly is...not really fat (as I said) but round in every way, her haunches, everything. BUT, the Japanese Bob-Tail is not known to be solid black, which BB is (which stands for - you guessed it - Black Bob-tailed Cat). I guess it could be BBC, but BB suits her fine. She loves rubbing her head all over me.
I am most interested in what you describe as your breeding queen and the line she comes from. What type of cat is she? 5 months really is young for a cat to go in heat. God help you!

 

I love the bobtail! She sounds lovely. Was she cross-bred to get her colour? Very striking.

She is a sphynx! Very weird, I know. The girl in question is lovely. She has a lovely personality and is so so cute, but not very typey. She's blue with a little white face and is very sweet, bit of a monkey at times I don't know her line too well as both her parents were recently imported but she came from a friend who is an experienced breeder and her parents are both beautiful. She is becoming more typey as she's growing and I hope she'll produce lovely kittens.

I have two other sphynx cats who are both alters and they are so typey! My boy is absolutely perfect. He had to be petted out for health reasons but he has a perfect body, head, personality. Couldn't be more perfect. It's his line that I'm getting a queen from next month

 

oh god! a cat in heat! HORRORS!
:willy_nilly:

dollyfizz my heart goes out to you all.
i have been down that same road several times with queens... IT AIN'T NO FUN WHATSOEVER!

the only thing i ever found to relive a queen in heat beside a tom was, a cotton swab.
the swab can be use like a dildo for kitty.
the poor little dears, it just breaks my heart seeing them suffer like that in heat.
:sad:

other then the cotton swab dildo, or a tomcat, is to just let her come out of heat and, then start her on hormone therapy.
that is the only things i know of what to do with queens in heat.

oh, by the way, as i'm writing this i have one my six "furry faced childern" in my lap sleeping and just purring away. i take it, she is in kitty cat heaven on earth right now.

 

as a person who spends a considerable amount of time and money feeding, catching, and spaying or neutering abandoned, stray and feral cats, this thread depresses the hell out of me

especially when it's time to put down the "old" ones that can no longer survive the winters here - by old i'm guessing 5-10 years?

next one to go is probably this guy, he's been weakening lately:



glad you're thousands of miles away . . .

 

Blackcat666- The idea of sexually stimulating a cat is dusgusting. Your cotton swab idea is vile.

Anyway. Thanks for the rest of your post. I think.

 

That's a beautiful cat.

I honestly can't quite work out why this thread would depress the 'hell' out of you. Because my queen is in heat?! Because she's not been spayed?! I don't get it. Care to elaborate?

5-10 years isn't old for a cat I have a moggy who's 18 next month and he's in wonderful health. I like to think I have a good while with him yet and there's no reason why he shouldn't live a good few more healthy happy years. How cold are your winters?

 

I would assume because people breed cats intentionally, when there is no need to and thousands die weekly because of people breeding cats that are not needed, and letting cats breed on their own when there's way too many.

Go to a large citys humane society on their gas chamber day of the week.... you'll walk away crying.

 

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to RooRshack again.

 

30 below zero [f] with lots of wind - days like that they won't come out for food; i've stopped walking out there on those days

you can tell which ones have been unlucky about the bad weather because they lose ears and eyes

i have no idea why i might be depressed by the idea of someone making more fucking cats, especially when i know damn well how many of the strays came from homes

those friendlier cats i catch and keep, fixed, indoors . . .

 

That's not the answer I was hoping for. It was the one I was expecting but I was offering the benefit of the doubt.

There's nothing wrong with breeding cats intentionally if people know what they're doing. Actually that's exactly how it should be done.

I don't condone 'letting cats breed' ever. I personally won't be selling on any cats that haven't been neutered first. Catteries should only be set up by those who know exactly what they're doing. And I do.

As for feral cats; they're wild animals, not domesticated felines. As for strays; I home strays. I love my moggies just as much as my pure bred. My favourite was a cat called Oscar who I had to have put down recently. I miss him so much actually. He was a stray and I got him in very poor health. He had a very good life after I took him on. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

 

are you keeping them all? do you know what other people are going to do with your cats?

when i adopt out cats i check in with the new "owners" from time to time - i have even taken back a cat that i thought was not being treated properly - and i never let anyone have a cat that has not been fixed

feral cats are not wild; they're feral - there is a difference

in the middle east and north africa, they are in fact wild, but not in england, not in north america

a recent university of nebraska study advocates shooting feral cats, the audubon society agrees with this, because the birds and squirrels and such they kill are often native species

and of course a feral cat is only the descendant of a house cat that happens to have been born in the wild

i have seen too many "cat fancier" houses where someone just walked away and left them to fend for themselves to ever agree with the idea of breeding them - whether you think you know what you're doing or not

should note too that i have seven feral cats living in my house, three of whom are not completely tame

 

Why do I get the feeling you're making me out to be a fool?! All I did was ask for a little advice for my first little queen and look what I've got in return! The third degree

No, I'm not keeping them all. I'd be crazy to.

There is no way on Earth I'd part with a cat and not know where they're going. Each cat will be registered correctly and I will know exactly what homes they will be going to. I'm still in touch with the breeders who bred the kitties (10+ years) I have now (at least the cats I have that aren't moggies etc) and I will be doing the same thing they have done.

I've kept cats my whole life. My mum kept cats for 45 years before she decided she had the time, knowledge and was ready to breed.

Feral cats are wild. They're cats who have returned from the wild from domestication, or cats who have been born to those who have returned to the wild.

I've only ever taken in one feral cat. I took her in as an abandoned kitten and hand reared her. I live in a city and I don't have land, I have a fairly large house on a private development and a small garden which belongs to my rabbits (which for the record I adopted and neutered). I don't have the land to take on ferals. I'm all for rehoming ferals but to suggest that just anyone can adopt them is wrong.

You're really rude, I don't need to be patronised. I came here to ask a simple question and look what I got! A lecture. I know exactly what I'm doing thank you.

Are your ferals happy living in a house? Here unless ferals are tamed and handled by people from up to 8 weeks old, they stay feral. They're neutered and adopted out to farms, land and holdings etc. They're not happy living in houses with humans. I also wouldn't trust a feral in the house with a child.

 

they're warm, well-fed, have lots of cat friends and with one exception, varying degrees of human friendship

and they're alive

the one exception, the most feral of the feral, was a bit long in the tooth when we caught her, but looked miserable, and wound up having the most worms i've ever seen in a catshe doesn't need the people, she has her boyfriend keith the fruit bat, she does just fine, uses the litter box and everything

sorry to ruin your thread but i do not trust anyone who breeds animals - except ranchers, no surprises as to how that ends

including you - you're asking for what is essentially veterinary advice in here???

note: after posting this, our newest trapped feral, yeti, hopped up into my lap and jammed himself in my face, then ran off to love-bomb mrs wica

i guess you could say he likes it in here . . .