Hi.
So, my cat is a bit over a year old. I had her spayed about sixth months ago when she began to display signs of going into heat (catterwauling, trying to dart out the door, etc.)
I have always kept her as an indoor cat, but have allowed her maybe a handful of highly supervised outdoor visits.
At my old place, there was very little of interest to be seen out the windows and she seemed pretty much happy to stay in.
I moved about a month ago and the new place has great views and lots of action going on all around. There is also a crew of alley cats around.
Since we've moved here she has enjoyed the views from all the screened windows a great deal and has played pawsy under one of the doors with some of the alley cats.
She is my only pet.
A few days ago she started screaming like crazy to go out. I denied her. And while I slept she managed to knock one of the screens out of one of the windows and get out. A few afters I awoke the next morning, I realized she wasn't in the house and was frantic to find her. Luckily, she is very vocal, knows her name, and hadn't strayed far because as I called ofr her she started chirping back at me and I found her hiding in an opening under my house. At that point, I had no idea how she'd gotten out at all. She'd come to bed with me. Had I slept walked and let her out? Had someone broken in? Had she walked through the wall? Nothing seemed displaced.
An hour or so later, she disappeared again and this time left the screen of the window she'd escaped from ajar so I realized that was her escape route. Luckily, I found her again quickly and locked her in a closet while I nailed all the screens in firmer place from the outside.
A few more hours pass and I hear a terrible noise. She's clawing through the screen she'd escaped from the two times before and I try to grab her from the inside but it's impossible. By the time I get outside she standing on my fence. She allows me to bring her back in. That window gets closed for good.
She was good all night and then began again the next day. She knocked a different screen out, and tried to climb out through 3 others. Finally, I just said, fine you want to go out, go out and hung out with her for an hour in the yard. But she wasn't done and kept screaming to go out again, so I let her out and got really scared after about 15 minutes when I had no idea where she was. She's fully grown at this point, but is really tiny. She's still kitten sized and isn't going to get any bigger. Some of the stray cats around here are really 4 times as big as she is and she won't even kill spiders in the house, she just stares and screams at them until I come to kill them, I don't really think she can hold her own against some of these cats. Also, I live on one of the busiest streets in Los Angeles. I'm a bit back up off the street but there are still tons of cars and motorcycles about. While looking for her over the course of another hour, I met a neighbor whose female cat is in heat. I really think that if she wasn't in such constant contat with all these other cats and their scents she'd be happy to stay in.
I've kept all the windows shut which has beenr eally stuffy and unpleasant for the past two days and she's been screaming and climbing the walls and playing much too roughly with me. It is very similar to the behavior she showed when she was starting to go into heat. I'm wondering if the vet maybe just removed her uterus and not her ovaries? Would that explain going into a partial heat? Would just the scents and temptations of all the other cats about be enough to drive her mad like this? Would getting her a kitten help distract her? Should I just give in and hope for the best and let her come and go as she pleases? She's really climbing the walls. It made me so sad when I didn't know where she was.
So, my cat is a bit over a year old. I had her spayed about sixth months ago when she began to display signs of going into heat (catterwauling, trying to dart out the door, etc.)
I have always kept her as an indoor cat, but have allowed her maybe a handful of highly supervised outdoor visits.
At my old place, there was very little of interest to be seen out the windows and she seemed pretty much happy to stay in.
I moved about a month ago and the new place has great views and lots of action going on all around. There is also a crew of alley cats around.
Since we've moved here she has enjoyed the views from all the screened windows a great deal and has played pawsy under one of the doors with some of the alley cats.
She is my only pet.
A few days ago she started screaming like crazy to go out. I denied her. And while I slept she managed to knock one of the screens out of one of the windows and get out. A few afters I awoke the next morning, I realized she wasn't in the house and was frantic to find her. Luckily, she is very vocal, knows her name, and hadn't strayed far because as I called ofr her she started chirping back at me and I found her hiding in an opening under my house. At that point, I had no idea how she'd gotten out at all. She'd come to bed with me. Had I slept walked and let her out? Had someone broken in? Had she walked through the wall? Nothing seemed displaced.
An hour or so later, she disappeared again and this time left the screen of the window she'd escaped from ajar so I realized that was her escape route. Luckily, I found her again quickly and locked her in a closet while I nailed all the screens in firmer place from the outside.
A few more hours pass and I hear a terrible noise. She's clawing through the screen she'd escaped from the two times before and I try to grab her from the inside but it's impossible. By the time I get outside she standing on my fence. She allows me to bring her back in. That window gets closed for good.
She was good all night and then began again the next day. She knocked a different screen out, and tried to climb out through 3 others. Finally, I just said, fine you want to go out, go out and hung out with her for an hour in the yard. But she wasn't done and kept screaming to go out again, so I let her out and got really scared after about 15 minutes when I had no idea where she was. She's fully grown at this point, but is really tiny. She's still kitten sized and isn't going to get any bigger. Some of the stray cats around here are really 4 times as big as she is and she won't even kill spiders in the house, she just stares and screams at them until I come to kill them, I don't really think she can hold her own against some of these cats. Also, I live on one of the busiest streets in Los Angeles. I'm a bit back up off the street but there are still tons of cars and motorcycles about. While looking for her over the course of another hour, I met a neighbor whose female cat is in heat. I really think that if she wasn't in such constant contat with all these other cats and their scents she'd be happy to stay in.
I've kept all the windows shut which has beenr eally stuffy and unpleasant for the past two days and she's been screaming and climbing the walls and playing much too roughly with me. It is very similar to the behavior she showed when she was starting to go into heat. I'm wondering if the vet maybe just removed her uterus and not her ovaries? Would that explain going into a partial heat? Would just the scents and temptations of all the other cats about be enough to drive her mad like this? Would getting her a kitten help distract her? Should I just give in and hope for the best and let her come and go as she pleases? She's really climbing the walls. It made me so sad when I didn't know where she was.