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And before you say 'spay her' - I already have. That's the problem. I spayed her within a week of adopting her and her 2 babies off the street, because she was pregnant at the time, and the last thing the situation needed was a second litter of kittens. But because she was pregnant it was a harder than normal spay, and the vet missed some tissue.
So she's got no baby-making bits anymore, but her body doesn't know that, and she still goes into heat. She loudly calls for toms at all hours of the day and night (and I wake up every time she calls because I'm tuned in to her voice). One second she'll be affectionate and the next she's biting and clawing. She does nothing but sit at the windows and doors yelling for tom cats, and when they show up she makes an even bigger noise. Her milkshake is bringing all the boys to our yard, and no amount of us shouting and spraying water at them is enough to deter them.
I'm in New Zealand, and here they won't give surgery to animals unless it's deemed 'medically necessary'. Mostly I'm happy about that, because it means things like they won't declaw cats, which is so great. But it also means I can't go and get her 'spayed' a second time to remove the leftover tissue, because she can't get pregnant, so a second spaying isn't necessary.
So with surgery a non-option, I'm looking for some more creative answers. Are there any medications, like a kitty contraceptive pill? Or, seeing as she can't actually get pregnant, if I let her 'mate' would it assuage her throbbing biological urges? (of course if I did go this option I wouldn't just let her outside with the romeos that are hanging around the garden, I'd set her up with someone whose cat had been tested for kitty STIs and vaccinated). This is a very, uh, unique situation and it might be the sleep deprivation talking, but I'm looking for equally unique solutions.
So she's got no baby-making bits anymore, but her body doesn't know that, and she still goes into heat. She loudly calls for toms at all hours of the day and night (and I wake up every time she calls because I'm tuned in to her voice). One second she'll be affectionate and the next she's biting and clawing. She does nothing but sit at the windows and doors yelling for tom cats, and when they show up she makes an even bigger noise. Her milkshake is bringing all the boys to our yard, and no amount of us shouting and spraying water at them is enough to deter them.
I'm in New Zealand, and here they won't give surgery to animals unless it's deemed 'medically necessary'. Mostly I'm happy about that, because it means things like they won't declaw cats, which is so great. But it also means I can't go and get her 'spayed' a second time to remove the leftover tissue, because she can't get pregnant, so a second spaying isn't necessary.
So with surgery a non-option, I'm looking for some more creative answers. Are there any medications, like a kitty contraceptive pill? Or, seeing as she can't actually get pregnant, if I let her 'mate' would it assuage her throbbing biological urges? (of course if I did go this option I wouldn't just let her outside with the romeos that are hanging around the garden, I'd set her up with someone whose cat had been tested for kitty STIs and vaccinated). This is a very, uh, unique situation and it might be the sleep deprivation talking, but I'm looking for equally unique solutions.