Hell is a cat in heat

[Svenskaflicka]

My cat is in heat, and I have no pills for her. I can't get any pills at this time of night, not until the morning.

Until then, I'm stuck with a non-stop meowing cat...

 

[starrkers]

My cat is in heat, and I have no pills for her. I can't get any pills at this time of night, not until the morning.

Until then, I'm stuck with a non-stop meowing cat...

Earplugs.

 

[cumallday]

You could always, you know, try and satisfy her urges. You two will bond as never before.

 

[jomar]

My cat is in heat, and I have no pills for her. I can't get any pills at this time of night, not until the morning.

Until then, I'm stuck with a non-stop meowing cat...

Put her in the studio - that's when they do their best work!

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u202/Divulgence/catspaint.jpg

ETA: with thanks to Divulgence for the pic.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have another member of the Ignore Club - Cumallday!

 

[SlickTony]

My cat is in heat, and I have no pills for her. I can't get any pills at this time of night, not until the morning.

Until then, I'm stuck with a non-stop meowing cat...

Why haven't you had her fixed yet? Unless she's a purebred and you've decided to get into the cat breeding business.

 

[cumallday]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have another member of the Ignore Club - Cumallday!

Awww shucks! Now I'll miss out on all the humorless banality.

 

[mckai777]

You could always, you know, try and satisfy her urges. You two will bond as never before.

Just terrible.

 

[SeaCat]

My cat is in heat, and I have no pills for her. I can't get any pills at this time of night, not until the morning.

Until then, I'm stuck with a non-stop meowing cat...

LOLOL

I know your agony. For a while I had not one but three cats going into heat at roughly the same time. Now these were not your normal Meowsers, these are all talkers so my wife and I got to hear them howling and chattering to each other at all times of day and night.

Life truly sucked at that time.

Cat

 

[SlickTony]

LOLOL

I know your agony. For a while I had not one but three cats going into heat at roughly the same time. Now these were not your normal Meowsers, these are all talkers so my wife and I got to hear them howling and chattering to each other at all times of day and night.

Life truly sucked at that time.

Cat

I'll see your 3 talkers and raise you (1) a Siamese cat in heat, or (2) waking up with a mother of a hangover and realizing that your cat has gone into heat. A Siamese queen in heat is the worst, most shameless, loudest nymphomaniac critter you'll ever have the dubious pleasure of seeing.

The cat that went into heat while I was hung over was Zandra, our second solid black cat, the one who sheltered in our garage on Halloween night and a day or two later ingratiated her way into the house. She went into heat on Pearl Harbor day. I'd been at a party the night before. I think she was very young, and this had not happened to her before. She kept thinking that Zappa could do something for her, which, of course, he couldn't. As soon as she recovered from that I took her to the vet and had her fixed.

And speaking of cats and their problems, I have a sort of question about one of mine. Doc, my black pointy-eared shoulder-riding cat, has taken to chasing his tail. This is something you see kittens doing a lot, but not so much after they're grown. Furthermore, quite often it will twitch and then he'll snap at it as if it weren't attached to him. My husband said he'd heard or read somewhere that this could be a precursor, or a harbinger, or at any rate some kind of sign, of something bad wrong, something neurological, is going on with the cat. I talked with some people on my other forum and one of them said it was an OWT, but he keeps doing it, and since Jim brought it up I can't help worrying about it.

 

[SeaCat]

I'll see your 3 talkers and raise you (1) a Siamese cat in heat, or (2) waking up with a mother of a hangover and realizing that your cat has gone into heat. A Siamese queen in heat is the worst, most shameless, loudest nymphomaniac critter you'll ever have the dubious pleasure of seeing.

The cat that went into heat while I was hung over was Zandra, our second solid black cat, the one who sheltered in our garage on Halloween night and a day or two later ingratiated her way into the house. She went into heat on Pearl Harbor day. I'd been at a party the night before. I think she was very young, and this had not happened to her before. She kept thinking that Zappa could do something for her, which, of course, he couldn't. As soon as she recovered from that I took her to the vet and had her fixed.

And speaking of cats and their problems, I have a sort of question about one of mine. Doc, my black pointy-eared shoulder-riding cat, has taken to chasing his tail. This is something you see kittens doing a lot, but not so much after they're grown. Furthermore, quite often it will twitch and then he'll snap at it as if it weren't attached to him. My husband said he'd heard or read somewhere that this could be a precursor, or a harbinger, or at any rate some kind of sign, of something bad wrong, something neurological, is going on with the cat. I talked with some people on my other forum and one of them said it was an OWT, but he keeps doing it, and since Jim brought it up I can't help worrying about it.

Slick,

I know what you are saying about the Siamese, a good friend of mine in Germany had two of them. When they start howling the sound like someone being killed.

As for the chasing of the tail, my Siamese Male does this quite often. It is unfortunately too funny to watch. As for it being the precursor to problems I haven't heard this before.

Cat

 

[SlickTony]

Slick,

I know what you are saying about the Siamese, a good friend of mine in Germany had two of them. When they start howling the sound like someone being killed.

As for the chasing of the tail, my Siamese Male does this quite often. It is unfortunately too funny to watch. As for it being the precursor to problems I haven't heard this before.

Cat

That's good to know. I wouldn't have given it a moment's thought except that it's kind of new behavior on his part. He did have an abraded place on his tail that got all weepy when he was suffering with fleas, but it's all healed up since I put the Revolution on him. Maybe he just remembers how much it itched. I think that's the reason why cats love having their ears messed with: there's not a cat on the face of the planet that hasn't had earmites at some time in its life and the memory of how much their ears itched has never left them.

 

[glynndah]

We have a cat that still chases his tail. When he finally catches it, he bites it, and then yowls because it hurts.

 

[SlickTony]

I've heard of that. I feel better now.

Il Grigio's tail is almost prehensile. When you pick him up he sometimes likes to coil it around your arm.

 

[SeaCat]

I've heard of that. I feel better now.

Il Grigio's tail is almost prehensile. When you pick him up he sometimes likes to coil it around your arm.

LOL

Magi likes to do that.

Our other cats are just as nuts.

Scrapper waits until you're sitting on the john then hops into your lap. She twists and turns until she can duck her head under either your shirt or your pants. Then she lays down and is happy.

Squeek will crawl into your lap and let you scratch her. She wants you to scratch her ears and head. When you stop she waits for a couple of seconds then reaches out and grabs you with her paws and pulls your hand to her head again.

Bubba on the other hand just head butts you when he wants attention.

Smokey waits for us to be asleep then pounces on us. Unfortunately she does this with all claws extended.

Critter is the most polite of them all. (A big surprise to me as she as the wild one.) She just comes up and nudges you with her head until you notice her. Unless of course you happen to have chicken. Then you see just how fast her paws are as she snags bits of food.

Cat

 

[SlickTony]

Our cats like to do a lot of that stuff. Doc loves to curl up on my lap when I'm on the throne. I've wasted lots of time there, petting him and twirling his ears. After I've gone to bed, he likes to come up and curl up on my chest. He sometimes likes to do this when I and my husband have it in mind to do something other than sleep, and then we have to throw him off the bed, or go down and put food in his bowl, and even then that sometimes does not work. Other times, he curls up on one of my pillows. Fortunately, I keep three in the bed--one for my head, one to hug, and one for the cat.

Il Grigio waits until someone has come downstairs in the morning, and then he rolls on his back and expects to have his tummy rubbed. This seems so odd in a cat that has come from the wild. This is the same cat that once, when I was eating a bowl of ice cream, hooked his paw on the edge of the bowl and caused the ice cream to flip out. Part of it landed on a piece of slick rotogravure that was on the floor. It was salvageable. Another part of it landed on the carpet. It was not. It's amazing how quickly he has taken to the housecat life. You'd think he'd been raised underfoot, except that when people outside the family come to the house, he makes himself very, very scarce.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Rescue is near. The recipe for cat pills will be in the pharmacy this afternoon.

 

[Guest]

Risking Svenskaflicka's Ignore button

I thought the female of any species should be loved, adored and their little, foibles like expressing themselves all-night-long, appreciated.

 

[SeaCat]

Okay digging back into personal history here's something worse.

The sight and sound of a Mama Cat looking for her suddenly missing kittens. There is nothing more irritating or heart wrenching.

Cat

 

[SlickTony]

Svenskaflicka, I am still intensely curious: why pills for the cat? Reason I'm asking, my folks gave their queen BC pills when they didn't want her to go into heat but hadn't quite decided to get totally out of the cat breeding business. They didn't get the resident stud fixed, either; I think they were acting out some conflict they were having themselves, but let's not go there. Anyway, Ophelia died of cancer at 12. I hope they've improved those pills since then.