Stella went into full-blown heat Wednesday night - now I remember what it's like! It's not just vocalizing but very loud bellowing plus a lot of extremely suggestive posturizing. She wasn't too bad Wednesday and Thursday nights, but she woke me off and on all through last night. I hope she'll settle down tonight, having been in heat 3 days.
Buster and Boo were adopted by a really nice couple yesterday. Thank God they went together!
I talked to Jessie at Killarney vet, and she said that a heat cycle for a female cat takes about a week to get fully going, then lasts a week in the full-blown phase, and then it's another week before everything settles down again. Omygosh!! Jessie said it could take less time if Stella was uncomfortable - i.e., no one petted or cuddled her and she was put in a cool room. I then decided to get Elizabeth's take on whether it was kinder for me to take Stella to the vet now, so that she'd be really uncomfortable for awhile and thereby get spayed sooner rather than later. Elizabeth said her opinion was that it would indeed be the kindest thing to do: Stella's clearly miserable and anything to get her out of this state in the shortest amount of time would be best for her. So off we went and Stella was left at the vet.
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