BUZZURRO

Buzzurro and I are currently staying in a house with 2 cats and 2 dogs. I have never lived with a dog or cat before, even though I have always liked them. I just never owned one.
Yesterday morning one of the cats, the prettier, fluffier, more timid one, walked up to me as if she wanted to be petted.
‘That’s weird’ I thought to myself. ‘She usually runs from strangers-me included.’

Then I started to pet her and she started to purr and stick her butt up in the air.
‘That is strange behavior’ I thought. ‘What is going on?’

Then the cat spied my house shoes (slippers) They have a little leopard print on them. As soon as she walked over to them and started sniffing sand rubbing her body against them I knew what was going on-she was in heat.

That whole day she was meowing and rubbing her body against the carpeted floor, the sofa, chairs, shoes, everything.
Buzzurro and the owners of the cats said ‘She wasn’t fixed. She’s in heat. It only lasts 2 days or so. It happens every month-like a woman and her menstrual cycle.’
‘It looks painful’ I said.
‘No. She is just in estrus.’ was the reply.

In this house there is a ‘doggie door’ or a little door for the dogs to enter the back yard. One of the cats uses this door to do her business. This particular cat does not.
“She is afraid of the dogs.’ The owner said.

Well, I guess her horniness got the better of her because by the afternoon she was nowhere to be found and by the late afternoon a neighbor brought her to where we were, saying that the cat was wandering in her yard. (’and trying to hump all her plants’ I thought to myself.)

I thought that night would be a little peaceful, assuming the cat satisfied her carnal desires while outside, but NO, she continued to meow constantly in a loud voice, and rub her body on everything.
The next day she went out again.
‘Must have found a little kitty boyfriend’ I thought to myself.

That night she was back in the house.
The next day there were no meows, no trying to hump everything in sight and no desire to use the doggie door to get outside either. She was over her estrus. Yeahhy. Not that it was impossible to sleep over her meows, but it looked like she was hurting and I felt bad-not that I could help.
Back to normalcy. At least until next month.
I still would like to get a cat. I think though I will have her (or him) fixed though.

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