Female Cats

There are many people who prefers having females instead of male cats, to avoid customs as wetting the house, straying and fighting (though these problems are less often in neutered cats). The principal disadvantage of a female is that, if we leave her to go out of the house when she wants, it is almost inevitable that, periodically, gives us litters of kitties. If we are not ready to remain with her kitties or to finding houses, it will be necessary to neuter cat; animals centers have plenty of abandon kittens. Another reason to sterilize the cat is as much breeding shortens the mother's life expectancy.

If we do not want to use to our cat to produce, it is necessary to sterilize her when she reaches the sexual maturity. This could be to 6 months, although it can change as the kitty has grown up. Most of the cats get the puberty at the beginning of the spring, for what if our kitty was born at the end of the previous year, it is possible that she comes to the puberty being younger than a kitty born before. The oriental breeds like the Siamese and the absinia - sometimes come to the sexual maturity to a very early age, 5 months, while the breeds of long hair - as the Persian- cannot be sexually mature until she gets 12 months or even a bit more.

Cycles of activity
In the moderate zones of the world, the wild cats or living in freedom are sexually active during 9 months of the year; and they are not at the end of the autumn and at the beginning of winter, when the light of the day is minor. This period of inactivity is less estimated in the domestic cats that live inside house - at least partially- and are exposed to the artificial light. The females are sexually active during a short period in each of the reproductive cycles of two or three weeks. It is only during this period hat is known as heat and it's during one week- when the mating takes place. The duration of this cycle is in the habit of being determined by the fluctuating level of the sexual hormones. In the cats of long hair it can be more than three weeks, while the oriental breeds can have a more short cycle, with more long periods of heat. If a cat neither mated nor sterilized. The time of heat appears every time with more frequency, until the animal is in heat almost always. On the contrary, the level of sexual hormones in the male cat remains more or less constant, so that he is sexually active at all time.