My Polly is in heat. She's driving me absolutely nuts!! I didn't think they could be in heat for this long, but she's been screaming for days! I'm tempted to let her go mingle with the boy cat down the road so she shuts up ahhh!

I can understand that. But the world does not need more kittens. There are too many of them suffering and being killed everyday.

I wouldn't really let her out. If we do breed her it will be simply for the purpose of making farm cats. We would love to adopt some cats, but its so hard to adopt a cat, you'd think they 'prefer' to kill them at those shelters. We haven't gotten any parts of her snipped or chopped or removed mainly because well... they tend to be meaner when you do that. It's not impossible to keep them inside, if they're properly disiplined. She was really sick at the time that she should have gotten 'fixed' (she was a farm cat, had mites and fleas and she was anemic.) It's a pain to trim her nails, because of her 6 toes on each foot, but it's not that hard. Thanks to her being intact she's the nicest kitten I've ever owned.

This is going to sound strange but here goes. The vet says to get an old themometer so you can throw it away when finished. Take the themometer warm it not too hot that it will burn and insert. You may have to do this a few times. The vet says a female will not go out of heat until she has been with a male cat. This is to sike her out and think she has.

Wow!! That's almost too much information there. I don't want to think that much about it.

I dunno if I could do that haha, she might start to like me a little too much :/

Hahahaha! There must b a better way.

I couldn't do it either. I took her to my friend the vet and he did it. Then I got her fixed. That was the lesser of the three evils for me. They can have up to 5 liters a year. It depends on how long the days are. Something about the sun. I couldn't handle taking her every month to get that done. If you want barn cats check with your local humane society and vets. They usually want people to take the wild cats that are unadoptable so they have room for the adoptable. Just tell them you will put food out every so often. My daughter and I help every so often at our local shelters and that is what they do and we have fostered several that way. Please don't think I am strange because of my first statement some people do that all the time instead of fixing them. I couldn't I thought it was sick that is why MJ got fixed.

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oops sorry hit the button twice. I guess I am still asleep

Well, we gave in and did it. I wanted some sleep dammit! She rolled around a couple hundred times and purred freakishly loud, and now she's upstairs passed out on the bed. I think it worked!

Eh, it didn't work. I'm starting to think shes just grumpy, rather than in heat. I don't really know though. Maybe I missed the hole? (sorry, won't go into any more detail.) When you're doing something you don't want to do to begin with, it's easy to mess up haha.

So you just did her for nothing? OH MAN!

Well, she sure seemed to like it. I think it's time to get her a 'teaser tom'. A lot of cats are scared of her though :/ I think it has something to do with the thumbs haha.

Here I go again speaking before I think. If she is putting her butt up in the air and her front half on the floor and hollaring then she is in heat and it may take more than once. But if she isn't doing that then she isn't. I know you people think I am crazy but it worked on my kitty. It is a hollar that will make you want to choke her to shut her up.

Maybe the poor kitty is into auto-asphyxia. :P

I'm thinking of trying all of this on my Timmy even though he's a boy and he's not in heat. :P

I have no idea but I am going to hush before you all call the paddy wagon on me.