A while back when a friends cat went into heat, she jokingly said she was tempted to screw the cat herself. This got me to wonder. What stops a female cats from being in heat. Is the physical act of intercourse or is it some kind of hormone in the male cats ejaculate?
Only pregnancy, sterilization or death.
death is definetly the best cure
While artificial stimulation will not stop the heat it is my understanding that it can increase the period of time until the next time. Normally cats cycle in and out of heat quite rapidly during the breeding season. They are induced ovulaters which means that the act of breeding actually stimulates ovulation. Ovulation does not effect the length of the heat but an unfertalized ovulation results in about a month of pseudo pregnancy so the cycle does not immediately commence again as it would wiothout ovulation.
In my experience, a female cat will have frequent estrus cycles if she is not mated.
No one seems to know the precise mechanism but many cat “experts” claim it’s the pain of intercourse that signals the female to cycle out of estrus. The tom’s penis is barbed very much like the tongue, with the barbs angled towards the base. As you can guess, this makes for a painful withdrawal. And this pain is what is claimed to trigger the end of the estrus cycle.
I’ve had freinds who were advised by their vet to simulate intercourse with a Q-tip if they wanted some peace. Their siamese would spend two weeks in heat and one week out, and the cat was constantly yowling. (But they wouldn’t fix her…) Tell your friend not to use anything bigger than that, and don’t insert it past the tip, or she will injure her cat!
The real solution is to get the animal fixed.
I had a similar problem ealier this summer. The thread is here.