Learn About what to Expect when a Cat is in Heat

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Hi! I am Dr. Adrienne Mulligan, I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic, and I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com. I am here to speak to you about breeding cats. Cats are essentially always in heat. After about 5 or 6 months, purebred cats sometimes don’t come into heat till a little later than that, but you don’t want to take too many chances, because they will come into heat before you are really ready for them to. They are what we call forced ovulators, which means they are always ready to ovulate. Now they may not always have clinical signs or symptoms of being in heat, but they can get pregnant at any point in time when they get bred. When they get bred, that is when they ovulate, and they will get pregnant. So they don’t have a season like dogs, where they come into season twice a year. Cats are always out there ready to be bred. So when your little cute kitten that you have at home decides to come into heat, she pretty much comes into heat and doesn’t go out until she gets pregnant. So that is why a lot of accidents happen, so there are some precautions that you should take with your new little kitten; and one of them is to make sure you will little kitten goes to the vet and gets through all of her kitten vaccines, so she has good immunity to pass on to any potential kittens, and that she gets de-wormed to help with that situation, and gets advice from your veterinarian about when to spay your kitty, now we are talking about females obviously, because we are talking about breeding and getting kittens.

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