# do female cats in heat seek out males despite the pain involved? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 24, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-cats-in-heat-seek-out-males-despite-the-pain-involved/533635 "2010-03-24T15:59:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-cats-in-heat-seek-out-males-despite-the-pain-involved/533635/21 "2010-03-26T06:36:13Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > From watching cats in heat, I can say that yes, they do seek out males and do actively work to get attention. On the other hand, I have also seen the males pin the females down. > > Have you not had a female cat in heat come up to get petting and immediately turn around to get petting in the “proper place”? (Wasn’t even my cat.) Hell, my female cat is such a slut that even though she’s been spayed, she’ll present herself to any male human who happens to be around her. (In addition to being a slut, she’s also into bestiality, apparently). When a man comes to visit us, or if we have a male service person come around, she will make a real pest of herself. If a man sits down in her presence, she will promptly jump in his lap and present her genital region to him. This can be a bit awkward for the humans involved. I’ve had a few female cats in heat, mostly because I adopted them and they promptly developed the feline equivalent of kennel cough, and so couldn’t be operated on until they recovered. Female cats in heat will seek out male cats. They’ll seek out male humans. They’ll back up against anything that vaguely resembles a penis. They’ve got an itch that they NEED to get scratched, and they are not picky about how they go about getting it scratched. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-cats-in-heat-seek-out-males-despite-the-pain-involved/533635/22 "2010-03-27T05:30:21Z")
Does the barbed package on Toms , scale up to tigers and lions ? Declan ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-cats-in-heat-seek-out-males-despite-the-pain-involved/533635/23 "2010-03-27T05:37:47Z")
Before I had my first cat fixed she would run up to me and plant herself directly in my path with her tail to the side. She wouldn’t move even if I stepped on her tail. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-cats-in-heat-seek-out-males-despite-the-pain-involved/533635/24 "2010-03-27T09:02:45Z")
> [@rhubarbarin](#): > > (I think it’s pretty certain that it hurts when the penis is withdrawn - it traumatizes the interior of the vagina). Could you please provide a link to a study looking for trauma to the interior of cat vaginas post-coitus? I find this fascinating. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-cats-in-heat-seek-out-males-despite-the-pain-involved/533635/25 "2010-03-27T15:02:30Z")
Don’t all women? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-cats-in-heat-seek-out-males-despite-the-pain-involved/533635/26 "2010-03-29T19:42:33Z")
**Pullet** said: > [@](#): > > Could you please provide a link to a study looking for trauma to the interior of cat vaginas post-coitus? Yes, I want to see those studies. Wait, that’s not what I meant! I want to see that there have been studies. (I’m not trying to get fetish cat-vagina porn. No, not me.) 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-cats-in-heat-seek-out-males-despite-the-pain-involved/533635.md?page=1)